Technology & Engineering
The Metal of a Thousand Uses
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- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 294
- Published
- 2026
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
About this book
The story
In 1930, a remote corner of southwest Arkansas witnessed the discovery of cinnabar, the ore from which mercury is extracted.
Upon the arrival of "the metal of a thousand uses," a wave of hope and ambition swept through the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains as mercury mining promised economic revival for the strugglin
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