File:Red Mountain Mining Operations c. 1950 - Red Mountain Iron Ore Mining, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL HAER ALA,37-BIRM.V,14- (sheet 1 of 1).tif

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Red Mountain Mining Operations c. 1950 - Red Mountain Iron Ore Mining, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
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Heintz, Eirik, creator
Title
Red Mountain Mining Operations c. 1950 - Red Mountain Iron Ore Mining, Red Mountain, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Jefferson County; Birmingham
Date 1993
date QS:P571,+1993-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 34 x 44 in. (E size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER ALA,37-BIRM.V,14- (sheet 1 of 1)
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  • Significance: The development of the Birmingham Industrial District was based on the proximity of iron ore, coal, and limestone, all of the raw materials necessary to produce iron and steel. This geological rarity produced an industrial model that was vertically integrated; that is, individual corporations owned all the means of production, from the mining of raw materials to the marketing of finished products. On this basis, the Birmingham Industrial District became an industrial center of national stature, providing merchant pig iron, foundry products, and steel to world markets. The genesis of this industry was in the availability of iron ore in the Red Mountain Formation. In the early stages of exploitation of this resource, the iron and coal industries developed independently. It was not until 1876, with the first successful reduction of Red Mountain ores in a blast furnace fired by locally-produced coke, that the two industries were completely joined. This event marked the beginning of large scale, systematic development of the resources of the district. Iron ore mining became a prominent feature of the industrial landscape of the area, and would remain so for nearly one hundred years. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Birmingham Industrial District had become the third largest producer of hematite iron ore in the United States; and before the industry closed, area mines had produced over 600 million long tons of ore.
  • Survey number: HAER AL-25
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Related names:

Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Squire, Joseph
Red Mountain Iron and Coal Company
McElwain, Wallace
Sloss Iron and Steel Company
Culverhouse, Thomas C.
Harris, N. S.
Benz, Sue, transmitter
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al0960.sheet.00001a
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Camera location33° 31′ 14.02″ N, 86° 48′ 09″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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