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Production. Mercury. Drawing off mercury sludge at the end of a condensing system in a New Idria, California extraction plant. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

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Production. Mercury. Drawing off mercury sludge at the end of a condensing system in a New Idria, California extraction plant. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

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Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Contributors

Feininger, Andreas, 1906-1999, photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Location

california

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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