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men in hats boots and pants with suspenders loading a mine cart with shovels ADC Workers
Industrial facility outdoors with pipes Alcoa Aluminum
White men standing before full rail car parked by large mine shaft Alix Mine
Brick building with covered porch and house on post card Aluminum Company of America
Halved rocks displaying interiors of purple crystal Amethyst Geode
Single and multistory industrial buildings with smoke stack and railroad tracks in the foreground Anthracite Mining
"Antimony City" newspaper clipping Antimony City Article
"Antimony in Arkansas" newspaper clipping Antimony Mining Article
Two white men emerging from a tunnel with a cart Arkansas Quicksilver Company
Several industrial wooden buildings with smokestacks Bauxite Mill
Crowd of men posing with two tractors in a field Bauxite Miners
White men with mining tools carts and machinery working in open pit bauxite mine Bauxite Mural
Tree covered countryside with river and rock quarry in the distance Big Rock Quarry
White man in hat and overalls with spraying the ground with two hoses with a man and woman in the background Black Gumbo Sluicing
conveyer belt on wooded hillside leading to tunnel Bull Shoals Dam Conveyer Belt
Green dump truck and red excavator in open pit mine Christy Vanadium Mine Pit
group of people pose in front of wooden oil derrick Clay County Oil Company Well No. 1
Statue of miner with mine cart loaded with coal Coal Miners Memorial
White and blue crystals on display in front of tin building with words "Bad dog" Coleman Quartz
Single-story cabin and mine entrance with trees Davis Mine
Dirt roads and quarried rocks on sloping landscape Denieville White Lime
Workers and horses standing outside pit top tower and industrial buildings with smoke stacks Denning Coal Mine
topographical map "The Arkansas Diamond Area" Diamond Pipe Map
Worker sifting for diamonds while standing on machinery in water Diamond Washing
Miners digging trench with rail carts Diamond Mining Company
Group of white men in hats with mining equipment and bare trees behind Early Diamond Exploration
Aerial view of excavator and other vehicles at the end of a winding dirt road leading to the bottom of an open pit mine East Wilson Pit
View looking down into an open pit mine with winding dirt roads and vehicles at the bottom East Wilson Vanadium Mine Pit
Oil derrick tower near body of water with sky reflected in the water El Dorado Oil Rig
Two-story mining building with carts and machinery Eureka Mine
Natural gas derrick with flags and blue skies Fayetteville Shale Rig No. 33
"President goes to Charleston" newspaper clipping Greenway Rough Riders Mention
Group of men with horses, track-based carts, in open-pit mine Guion Sand Mine
Large sediment pile by conveyor belt ramps tracks overgrown field metal building and tree line Gypsum Mining
Group of men seated and standing in rows outdoors Hackett Miners
White miners and horse at entrance of mine with cart filled with coal and ramp Hartford Coal Mining
white man in hat standing outside John Huddleston
Men standing beside large brick structure Ice Plant
Group of white miners with tools before quarried side of a hill Lime Quarry
Train cars being machine-loaded with coal Loading Coal
Green and white signed stock certificate Lonquil Stock Certificate
Mine entrance under lookout tower on signed card stock Lost Louisiana Mine
Mine shaft entrance with wooden tower among trees Lost Louisiana Mine
"Lost Aztec treasure may be found in fastness of Ozark cave" newspaper clipping with photograph of cave paintings Lost Louisiana Mine Article
White man handing other white man piece of paper among group of others Manganese Miners
Polished rock with crystals in its center Manganese Ore
Stone brick monument with "Arkansas" engraved brick and plaque on its base in forested area Marble Quarry Monument
White man in hat standing in pit with another man in a hat sitting on the ground with fence behind them Mauney Mine
One white man watching another white man dumping rocks Mercury Mining
Rock with red crystals embedded Mercury Sulfide (or Cinnabar) Crystals

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