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White man in hat standing in pit with another man in a hat sitting on the ground with fence behind them

One white man watching another white man dumping rocks

Rock with red crystals embedded

Mercury Sulfide (or Cinnabar) Crystals

Two white men, one older than the other, and two older white women in front of a building with an open door and a sign saying "no searching permitted keep off"

Millars at the Ozark Diamond Mine

Statue of man with mining equipment on base and polished stone column behind it

Display cases of stone and metal inside large hall

Mines and Metallurgy Exhibit

Aerial view of mining buildings and multistory house with covered porch outbuildings and garden

Morning Star Zinc Mine

Single-story building at entrance to open pit mine with tree covered multilevel mine wall in the background

North Wilson Vanadium Mine

Exterior mine with two men standing, triangular building with smoke stack in background, forest

Ozark Mine Plant

Smokestacks with wooden outbuildings at mining site

Rogers White Lime Works

"Interviews" newspaper clipping

Roosevelt Interview Article

"Forgotten Treasure" newspaper clipping

Silver Mining at Kelloggs Creek Article

Three men with pole boats transporting iron pipes in flooded area with tall trees near oil derrick.

Smackover Oil Field

Two white men in large field with railroad tracks

Southeastern Slope

Wooden frame structure at mining site

White man with a mustache and hat sitting on a barrel

Wooden structure and cabins with smokestack in field

Oil gushing from a steel derrick with single-story building nearby

Union County Gusher

"United Mine Workers of America" certificate for G.E. Mikel

Rows of tables supported by concrete blocks with crystals and rocks with barn in the background

Wegner Crystal Ranch

Factory buildings with smoke stacks emitting smoke and road in the foreground

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