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New Idria, California. Drilling blast holes with a compressed-air rock drill in one of the workings of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company, where cinnabar ore, containing mercury, is obtained
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Credit lineNew Idria, California. Drilling blast holes with a compressed-air rock drill in one of the workings of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company, where cinnabar ore, containing mercury, is obtained. 1942-01-01. Feininger, Andreas. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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