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men in hats boots and pants with suspenders loading a mine cart with shovels

Industrial facility outdoors with pipes

White men standing before full rail car parked by large mine shaft

Brick building with covered porch and house on post card

Aluminum Company of America

Halved rocks displaying interiors of purple crystal

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

Crowd of men posing with two tractors in a field

White men with mining tools carts and machinery working in open pit bauxite mine

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

Series of buildings on a hillside with people and cars between them

Carbon Coal Company

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

rows of wooden houses on road with a few people walking and sitting on a porch

Coal Mining Settlement

White and blue crystals on display in front of tin building with words "Bad dog"

Wooden and metal buildings on mound of dirt and below it

Comet Coal Mine

Single-story cabin and mine entrance with trees

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

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

Group of men seated and standing in rows outdoors

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

Group of white miners with tools before quarried side of a hill

Train cars being machine-loaded with 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

Overview of scattered buildings on thinly treed hillside

White man handing other white man piece of paper among group of others

Manganese Miners

Polished rock with crystals in its center

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