Fluorspar Mining: Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995

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    Fluorspar Mining: Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995 Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Southern Illinois University Press
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    Pages: 120 Illustrations and other contents: 93 illustrations Language: English ISBN: 9780809336685 Categories: , ,

    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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    Author Biography

    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.