# The Metal of a Thousand Uses, Vol. 1

By **Terry S Reynolds**

- ISBN-13: 9781682262917
- Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 294
- Published: 25 May 2026
- Language: en
- Categories: Technology & Engineering, Mining

## About this book

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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