Fluorspar Mining

Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995

Herbert K. Russell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2018
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3668-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	93 illustrations
Verlagsort	Carbondale
Sprache	englisch
Maße	222 x 216 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Technik ► Bergbau
ISBN-10	0-8093-3668-5 / 0809336685
ISBN-13	978-0-8093-3668-5 / 9780809336685
Zustand	Neuware