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Females represented 36 per cent of participants, much higher than their representation in the total Indigenous workforce across all Pilbara iron ore operations (23%) and Argyle Diamond Mine (19%). Data was analysed by theme and quotes presented in this article were selected across all sites.
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The major iron mining area from the mid-1880s to the mid-1960s was the Gogebic Iron Range, which extends for 80 miles from Lake Gogebic in Michigan to Lake Namekagon in Wisconsin. Forty-five of the 70.7 million tons of ore produced from the Gogebic Iron Range in Wisconsin came from the Cary Mine near Hurley and the Montreal Mine at Montreal ...
In the early 1940s, as women flooded the labor force in order to replace the millions of men who had gone off to war, a wide variety of songwriters, illustrators like the Saturday Evening Post 's Norman Rockwell and …
Since red iron ore was discovered in 1890 by the Merritt brothers, men have toiled in the iron mines, that is until 1974 when 9 of the country's largest steel companies signed a consent decree with the Equal …
The passion to find and exploit Missouri's underground wealth, especially lead and iron ore, beginning with the French in the earliest years of the eighteenth century, was every bit as responsible as the fur trade for the region's exploration, and it …
Most iron ores are extracted by surface mining. Some underground mines do exist, but, wherever possible, surface mining is preferred because it is cheaper. Lumps and fines Crushing. As-mined iron ore contains lumps of varying size, the biggest being more than 1 metre (40 inches) across and the smallest about 1 millimetre (0.04 inch).
The women who banded together to challenge the hostile environment at the Eveleth Mines are part of a long and proud tradition of women who have made America a better place to live. There is a common …
Oliver Mining Company steam-powered shovel near Hibbing, 1919. In this method of mining, a shovel removes overburden, the rock and soil that covers the ore body, so that miners can access the ore from the open pit. The Oliver Iron Mining Company was one of the most prominent mining companies in the early decades of the Mesabi Iron …
Man working in iron foundry in the 1940s. Photo: Peter Lange / CPDOC / FGV Itabira Iron Ore is created In order to replace Brazilian Hematite, in 1911 the Itabira Iron Ore Company is organized, which receives authorization from the Brazilian government to operate.
The bobsled, dubbed "Iron Shoes," would have carried its Lyon Mountain team in the 1940 Winter Olympics had not war in Europe canceled the games. The stretcher was called into service whenever a miner was injured or killed on the job; judging from the research Lawrence P. Gooley has done for his new book, Lyon Mountain: The Tragedy …
At 17, Allen started working in the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company mines, then operated by Republic Steel. His first position was "timberman" - which meant he helped to install timbering to support ...
Here are a few milestones from the history of women in mining: 1860s: In the nineteenth century, women worked in mining as prospectors, ore processors, miners, managers and mine owners. Women "grubstakers" sometimes financed the initial cost of prospecting in return for part-interest in any claim.
In the year before the war, Germany received 22 million tons of iron ore from various foreign sources. Although it was able to produce around 10m tons of its own iron ore each year, it was of low grade quality and needed to be mixed with high grade material from other countries such as Sweden, which annually supplied it with 9 million tons. ….
The annual report for the year 1940 featured a single photograph: a full-page image of the South Works plant in Chicago, its furnaces ablaze at night, with the caption, "U.S. Steel Works Around the Clock to Meet Defense and Civilian Needs."
Angelo graduated from high school in 1940 and immediately began working in the mines, following in the foot steps of his father, an Italian immigrant. He joined the United States Navy in 1942 working as a radio operator aboard a communications ship. Angelo served in both the European and Pacific theaters of World War II.
The following discussion of Indigenous women's experience working in the Australian mining industry draws on research undertaken by Parmenter at Argyle Diamond Mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (Parmenter et al., 2020) and three iron ore operations in the neighbouring Pilbara region (Parmenter and Barnes, 2020) as well …
Iron ore production in Europe 1900-1945, by country. Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 31, 1981. From the years between 1900 and 1945, France was the largest iron ore producer in ...
The rich deposits of iron ore were exploited by the Romans (fn. 2) and supplied ironworkers operating in Dean by the later 11th century. (fn. 3) Coal was being dug in several of the Forest's bailiwicks in the mid 1240s (fn. 4) but its extraction was of secondary importance to ore mining until the 17th century.
In the 1880s, Andrew Carnegie purchased the land and used it to mine iron ore for his steel mills. In 1909, the mines closed and within a couple of years, Scotia was a ghost town . While some logging continued to occur on the land, it was finally protected by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in the early 1940s.
By Gary KaunonenMay 10, 2018. On June 2, 1916, 40 mineworkers from the St. James Mine in Aurora, Minnesota, walked off the job. The men, mostly immigrants, were fed up with the dangerous conditions they faced blasting and hauling iron ore in open pits and underground shafts, and with the prolonged abuses of mining company managers.
The bobsled, dubbed "Iron Shoes," would have carried its Lyon Mountain team in the 1940 Winter Olympics had not war in Europe canceled the games. The stretcher was called into service whenever a miner was injured or killed on the job; judging from …