Metals in riparian wildlife of the lead mining district of southeastern Missouri

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Niethammer ◽  
Richard D. Atkinson ◽  
Thomas S. Baskett ◽  
Fred B. Samson
Keyword(s):  
Mining District ◽  
Lead Mining

Finding’s Keeping

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-45
Author(s):  
Jarod Roll
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Transportation Networks ◽  
Corporate Control ◽  
White Men ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Market Revolution ◽  
Mineral Wealth ◽  
National Market ◽  
Lead Mining

This chapter explains the discovery of lead mineral deposits and development of lead mining in southwest Missouri in the 1850s. Far from markets and transportation networks, working miners discovered and claimed rich deposits of lead mineral in this isolated region in the midst of a national market revolution that made lead more profitable than ever. Their discoveries soon attracted the attention of lead-starved smelting companies from St. Louis and elsewhere that tried to take control of the mineral wealth from the miners, most of whom were white men. The miners resisted corporate control because they believed that the mines rightfully belonged to them by virtue of discovering and developing them. By the time of the Civil War, miners and the smelting companies had negotiated a compromise based on leasing. Miners worked leasehold mines and sold their lead mineral to smelting companies for favorable prices, thus preserving the rights and privileges of the men who discovered the lead, and also creating good opportunities for miners who moved to the area. While the war devastated mining in the region, the companies rebuilt the mining district after the war by reinstating the favorable terms for working miners.

scholarly journals Toxic Exposure of Songbirds to Lead in the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 598-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Nelson Beyer ◽  
J. Christian Franson ◽  
John B. French ◽  
Thomas May ◽  
Barnett A. Rattner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mining District ◽  
Toxic Exposure ◽  
Southeast Missouri ◽  
Lead Mining

scholarly journals Confrontation at the Fever River Lead Mining District

1978 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-295
Author(s):  
Ronald Rayman
Keyword(s):  
Mining District ◽  
Lead Mining

Hydrogeochemistry in the zinc—lead mining district of “Les Malines” (Gard, France)

1986 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bosch ◽  
M. Leleu ◽  
P. Oustrière ◽  
C. Sarcia ◽  
J-F. Sureau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mining District ◽  
Lead Mining

scholarly journals III.—On some New Species of Graptolites from the South of Scotland

1872 ◽  
Vol 9 (101) ◽  
pp. 501-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hopkinson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Carbonaceous Shale ◽  
The South ◽  
Lead Mining

In this communication I purpose describing a few new forms of Graptolites which I have obtained at various times from the Llandeilo rocks of the south of Scotland. Of one species, first collected at Moffat in 1866, a brief diagnosis has previously been given, and the names of two others, from the lead-mining district of Lanarkshire, have already been published. One of these also occurs near Moffat. The remaining species are all from one or other of these richly fossiliferous districts. Of their position in the geological series I need only say here that the black, more or less carbonaceous, shale in which they occur, appears, from the fossils it contains, to correspond to the higher portion of the Llandeilo flags of Wales; that it is almost immediately succeeded by a series of beds (the Gala group) containing fossils of Caradoc or Bala age; and that the unfossiliferous flagstone, or greywacké, in which it occurs, reposes on rocks which have yielded to the persevering search of Prof. Elliot and Messrs. Lapworth and Wilson a few fossils of Cambrian age.

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