Ore Collection

Bingham Canyon Copper Mine or Kennecott Mine
Bingham Canyon Copper Mine (Kennecott Copper Mine), Utah, USA Date: circa 1910s

Industry / Metals / Steel
A modern steelworks - iron running out of the blast furnaces in which iron ore has been blasted to yield molten pig-iron

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Ore Boat unloading - Steel Mills
Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Ore Boat unloading at one of the Steel Mills on the Cuyahoga River - the Terminal Tower can be seen in the background - nighttime. Date: circa 1934

Giovanni Luder fioro, asceso in aria per mezzo di un globo aereostatico diretto dal Sig. Dre. Gaet, Cioni Dalla Piazza del Carmine di Firenze il di 16 iuglio 1795 a ore 7 1/2 pomerid e disceso alle 9

Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Michigan - Shaft No. 2
Quincy No.2 mine shaft (with the old hoist house at right) at the Quincy Copper Mine, Hancock, Michigan. This amazing structure was eventually replaced with the steel structure at the site today

Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Whaleback ship - Poe Docks
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, Whaleback ship leaving Poe Docks. A whaleback was a type of cargo steamship of unique design

Franklinite, zinc ore
A granular rock composed of white calcite, dull green willemite, red zincite and black franklinite (Zinc Iron Manganese Oxide). See T00387 for a fluorescent view

Smelter - Morenci, Arizona, USA
Smelter - Morenci Copper Mine, Arizona, USA. The Detroit Copper Company started mining at Morenci in 1872. Copper Queen Consolidated Mining bought the property in 1885

Newfoundland - Bell Island - Miners
Newfoundland and Labrador - Bell Island - Miners at a Surface Iron Ore Mine (mining started there in 1895) Date: circa 1908

CORNISH TIN ORE DRESSERS
Cornish ore-dressers. Date: 1869

Plate 1 from Specimens of British Minerals? vol. 1 by P. Ras
Plate 1 entitled Woodlike-tin ores from Specimens of British minerals, selected from the cabinet of P. Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the County of Cornwall (1797) by Philip Rashleigh

Trades in Regency England: blacksmith, Jappanner and goats. Blacksmith with hammer and anvil in front of a forge in the Forest of Dean 43, man showing a Japanned or lacquered tray in Pontypool 44

Ore docks Conneaut Ohio USA early 1900s

Middleton Dale Old Lead Mines early 1900s

Ore park, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Ore park, with displays of large forged pieces from the foundries of the Haute-Marne, at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

Ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamer
A ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamer, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson. The large number of masts are not for sails or rigging, but there to support the derricks

Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin making
Trades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8

The home of Nic鰨ore Niepce in Chalon-sur-Sa
The home of Joseph NicÚ░¿ore Niepce (1765 1833) in Chalon-sur-Sa France. French inventor. Niepce was a pioneer in the technological development of photography

View of the metal ore veins inside a mountain
View of the metal ore veins inside a so-called Stollart in a mountain with unusual parallel veins. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der

Varieties of iron ore. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by after an illustration by from Georg Wolfgang Knorrs Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son

Varieties of lead ores and crystals. Handcoloured copperplate engraved and drawn by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son

Varieties of tin ores. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771

Varieties of copper, coppernickel and malachite ores. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur

Varieties of gold and silver ores. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Georg Wolfgang Knorr from his Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son

Mining for lead and silver in the Hartz mountains near Clausthal, Germany. Mine de Plomb-Argentifere des environs de Clausthal

View of the iron mine at Dannemora, Upland, Sweden
View of an 18th century iron mine at Dannemora, Upland, Sweden. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Section through an 18th century European mine. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire

Metals including lead, iron, mercury and bismuth
Metals including lead 1, iron 2, 3, 4, mercury 5, 6, bismuth 7 and antimony 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Precious metals including gold, silver, copper and tin
Precious metals including gold 1, silver 2, 3, copper dendrite 4, blue copper 5, malachite copper 6, garnet tin 7, tin crystal 8, and tin sand 9

Edison Snout, protection from industrial dust
The Edison Snout, invented by Thomas Edison as a protection from industrial dust in the production of fine steel from low-grade ore. late 19th century

INDUSTRY / METALS / IRON
Three young men struggle and strain to push a rail truck full of iron ore uphill as part of their Labour Service training. Date: 1930s

IRON MINE
Mining iron ore Date: circa 1820

Canada - Ontario - Mining Town - South Lorrain - Keeley-Jowsley-Wood Company Ore House - Silver Mine interior with two men and guard dog. Date: circa 1908

Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Union Terminal Tower and Ore Docks Date: circa 1931

China - Using high-pressure water jet in mining operation. Date: circa 1930s

Limonite, also known as ironstone, is comprised of (hydrated iron oxide) and is characterized by its rusty colour and banded appearance

Iron Ore Mines at Ouenza, Algeria
Mines at Ouenza - Constantine, Algeria. Ouenza is a town in northeastern Algeria, near the eastern border with Tunisia. The nearby Mount Ouenza is the site of extensive iron-ore deposits

Sweden / Lulea / Lapland
Lulea, Lapland: export harbour for iron ore Date: 1927

Toledo, Ohio, USA - Ore Boat on Maumee Bay. Lake freighters, or Lakers, are bulk carrier vessels that ply the Great Lakes. Date: 1925

Roane Iron Company, Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
Roane Iron Company blast furnace at Rockwood, Tennessee, USA. Date: 1906

Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA
Scene inside the Molly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA. A miner stands next to a cart containing gold ore ready to be taken to the surface. Date: circa 1910

Sydney, Australia - Silver Mine - Broken Hill
Slide showing a photograph of a Silver mine. Broken Hill is Australias longest-lived mining city. In 1844, the explorer Charles Sturt saw and named the Barrier Range

Iron-ore mining and smelting industrial complex. Magnitogorsk town - Chelyabinsk region - South-East of Ural Mountain Range - steppe landscape around - July

Strategic factors in the north by G. H. Davis
Strategic factors in the north: Swedish iron ore; Norways coast. A pictorial map of Scandinavia, showing the iron fields and their ports of shipment

Exposition Nancy 1909 - Accumulators Lorraine ore hoppers with hatches. Date: circa 1911

Pier, Wabana Iron MIne, Belle Isle, Newfoundland
Dominion Iron and Steel Company Pier at the Wabana Iron MIne, Belle Isle, Newfoundland, Canada. Date: 1902

Nova Scotia Steel Co Pier, Wabana, Belle Isle, Newfoundland
Nova Scotia Steel Companys Pier, Wabana Iron Mine, Belle Isle, Newfoundland, Canada. Date: 1902

Manganese Mine, Insuta, Gold Coast, Ghana, West Africa. Discovered in 1915 when allies were in dire need of Manganese ore

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