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Wyoming ore operations, circa 1960

 Item — Box: 170, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 3122 Series 1 Sub-Series 31 Item 12

Dates

  • circa 1960

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It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Geneva Steel Holdings Corporation records must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Extent

1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 20 cm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

General note

Caption on item: "WY Ore Mine," and "Symbolic of Wyoming industrial growth is the complex of buildings and conveyor lines at U.S. Steel's new taconite iron ore mining and beneficiating operations near South Pass, some 30 miles south of Lander. The octagonal-shaped building at the left is the agglomerate storage building. At the right is the agglomerating plant, where concentrated iron ore is literally 'burned' into rock-hard balls about the size of marbles."

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