Iron Ore -- Rogersfield Mine (Chateaugay Iron Mines)

ID: SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-3832]

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Glass negatives

Date: 1880

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 011, Image No. MAH-3832

Summary

Shows the incline going down into the mine, the pillars of ore left to support the roof, and the empty spaces left after the ore has been extracted.

Collected by curator of metallurgy and economic geology, Frederic P. Dewey, to illustrate metallurgical processes and mineral resources of the United States.
Description from "Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 42: A Preliminary Descriptive Catalogue of the Systematic Collections in Economic Geology and Metallurgy in the United States National Museum," page xiv.
USNM. No. 54635.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-006, Box 011, Image No. MAH-3832

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Chateaugay (Franklin County, N.Y.)

Glass negatives

SIA Acc. 11-006 [MAH-3832]

5 x 8;