Fluorspar Mining
Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-8093-3668-5 (ISBN)
Description
This pictorial record of the men who worked in the Illinois and Kentucky fluorspar fields from the 1890s to the 1990s shows early and later methods of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporting the mineral from mine mouth to end-user; notes its many industrial uses; and briefly illustrates its beauty and value to collectors.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Illustrations
93 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 222 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-3668-5 (9780809336685)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
01/2019
1st Edition
Southern Illinois University Press
€30.99
Available for download
Person
Herbert K. Russell, formerly the Executive Director for College Relations at John A. Logan College, is a literary scholar and southern Illinois historian who has been a college teacher, an editor and a writer. He is the author of The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History, Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography and editor of A Southern Illinois Album, Southern Illinois Coal: A Portfolio, and The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters' Uncollected Spoon River Poems.