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Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ...
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Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ...
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Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ...
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Mining Scene

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Description: An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used...
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Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world.
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Mammouth and Standard Mining Mills

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Description: The Mammoth and Standard Mining Mills has been producing silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper continuously since 1884. Caption reads: "Mammouth and Standard...
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Lead and Zinc Mining

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Description: Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Elevated view of a man working with a hand jig. Caption reads:...

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