New Idria fsa 8d35762
New Idria mercury mine, San Benito County, Northern California.:*Original caption: "A part of a mercury extraction plant of the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company. Triple-distilled mercury is produced from cinnabar, an ore containing sulphur and mercury."
- Date
- 1942-12
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 968 × 1,024 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).
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