Gillham (Sevier County)
A post office was established in 1874, and the community acquired a store that is said to have earned about $10,000 a year during the mining boom. The material Bellah had found proved to be not silver but antimony.
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The story of Bauxite is largely the story of the bauxite mining industry. Bauxite, the ore from which the town derives its name, and which is a key component in the production of aluminum, was discovered in great abundance in this area of central Arkansas in 1887.
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Antimony
Mining of antimony ore has been limited to northern Sevier County, although some stibnite is also present in Pike County, associated with cinnabar (HgS). ... 1979, Antimony district of southwest Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular 24, 29 p. Pittenger, G. C., 1974, Geochemistry, geothermometry, and mineralogy of Cu, Pb ...
Antimony
Antimony. Many minerals contain antimony (Sb), a soft white metal with a low melting point. However, stibnite and antimonial lead ores are the main sources of the metal. Stibnite …
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Antimony Mining Article
Article in the Arkansas Democrat about renewed interest in antimony mining in Sevier County. ...
Industrial Sand Mining
A third mine, operated by Delta Company, opened in 2007 in eastern Pulaski County, where sand is open-pit-mined from Quaternary deposits adjacent to the Arkansas River. The product from this mine is marketed as hydraulic frac sand. Traditional markets for industrial sand from Arkansas have long existed for the manufacture of glass and …
Otto Antimony Mine Near Gillham, Arkansas | The Diggings™
The Otto Antimony Mine, located near Gillham, Arkansas, was initially found in 1877 by the U. S. Antimony Company of Philadelphia. The primary minerals extracted from this mine …
Lead and Zinc Mining
The history of lead and zinc mining in Arkansas is linked because ores of these two metals often occur together. Lead and zinc in Arkansas occur ...
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Vanadium Mining
Major deposits of vanadium were discovered in central Arkansas by Union Carbide's Western Exploration Group in the 1960s. Vanadium orebodies are found in ...
Guion (Izard County)
Sand mining at Guion (Izard County); circa 1930s. The sand was brought out by mule-drawn carts. ...
Otto Antimony Mine Near Gillham, Arkansas | The Diggings™
The Otto Antimony Mine, located near Gillham, Arkansas, was initially found in 1877 by the U. S. Antimony Company of Philadelphia. The primary minerals extracted from this mine are stibnite, jamesonite, and sphalerite.
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About the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas Mission and Goals Statement Editorial Policies. ... Antimony Mining. Antimony (Sb) is a hard, brittle, silver-white metal with a relatively high specific gravity (6.69) and a relatively low melting temperature. Antimony is a constituent in some alloys.
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Diamond Mining
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Coal Mining
Mining coal by hand and with teams northeast of Charleston (Franklin County); 1917. ...
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Many minerals contain antimony; however, stibnite and antimonial lead ores are the main sources of the metal. Stibnite (Sb2S3) and its alteration oxide, stibiconite …
Antimony as a Critical Raw Material | Encyclopedia MDPI
The potential future mining of antimony resources is expected to mostly include either simple stibnite or precious metal deposits associated with copper, lead, and/or zinc. Also, gold is a significant co-product of antimony. However, it is often the primary focus of extraction in gold–antimony vein mining operations.
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Certain metals had their production peaks during major wars or military conflicts, including antimony in Sevier County (1916–1918), mercury in Pike County …
Bauxite Mining
The Arkansas bauxite region covers about 275 square miles in the northern part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain and is divided into two mining districts. One area is in Pulaski County, south and east of Little Rock, and the other is in nearby Saline County, northeast and east of Benton.
Crushed Stone Mining
Crushed stone is an angular form of construction aggregate, made by breaking quarried rock into fragments that may be sorted, sized, and recombined into a ...
Diamond Mining
Almost 100 million years ago, in what is now Pike County, nature created one of the world's most unusual diamond-bearing formations, the big volcanic ...
Gypsum Mining
Gypsum is a mineral (CaSO4·2H2O) that occurs in nature as both a mineral and, when in massive form, a rock. Massive deposits are present as sedimentary ...
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The consumer data marketing company Acxiom began in Conway (Faulkner County) in the late 1960s as Demographics, Inc. In the twenty-first century, Acxiom has become a major national and international enterprise that collects, analyzes, and markets customer and business information for use in targeted advertising.