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Title
Two men at the Senador Mine entrance
Contributor
Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution
San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information
For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description
Two men stand at the entrance of the Senador Mine at the north end of the New Almaden Mine property.
The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine in Santa Clara County, California is the oldest and most productive quicksilver (i.e., mercury) mine in the United States. The site was known to the Ohlone Indians for its cinnabar long before a Mexican settler discovered the ores in 1820. By the time they were identified as mercury, the mine was perfectly timed to supply the California Gold Rush. The mine ran intermittently after 1927 and eventually closed. It was purchased by the county and is now part of Almaden Quicksilver County Park. The town of New Almaden is located south of San Jose, off the Almaden Expressway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Almaden
Same photo appears in Arcadia New Almaden book, p. 123
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier
islandora:78_1480
filename: jcg_new_almaden_mines_002
islandora: 78_1480
Language
English
Subject
Mercury mining
Men
Cinnabar
Place
New Almaden
California
Relation
John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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