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Title page 147
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Description mines, from the standpoint of numbers of persons employed, and the principal minerals produced from them are indicated on the accompanying map. The need for strategic minerals in the war effort stimulated production of mercury in Valley and Washington Counties, Idaho, and of tungsten in Valley and Lemhi Counties, Idaho. In 1943 the central basin produced approximately 10 percent of the Nation's mercury and 52 percent of the Nation's tungsten. Small amounts of molybdenum are produced in...
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