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Posted: 03 Mar 2011

Taken: 01 Aug 2001

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Antelope Springs •
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Pershing County •
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quicksilver •
mercury •
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Headframe, Nevada Quicksilver Mine

Headframe, Nevada Quicksilver Mine
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It's actually pretty recent; this mine closed about 1970, right when mercury was morphing from "invaluable strategic metal" to "ghastly environmental toxin." The operation was a casualty of the plummeting demand.
11 years ago.

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