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This pictorial record of the men who worked in the Illinois and Kentucky fluorspar fields from the 1890s to the 1990s shows early and later methods of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporting the mineral from mine mouth to end-user; notes its many industrial uses; and briefly illustrates its beauty and value to collectors.

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Until now, the story of our local miners' tribulation and triumph in producing the strategic mineral fluorspar has been untold. Herbert K. Russell's Fluorspar Mining is a captivating visual essay of the vital role these great men played in winning two world wars. --Ed Clement, director, Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Fluorspar Mining: Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995 is an excellent pictorial history of one of the most important fluorspar mining regions in the world. The historical photographs and complementary text will be of interest to anyone seeking information about the mining practices or people of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District. --F. Brett Denny, associate economic geologist, Illinois State Geological Survey At last, author Herbert K. Russell provides a long overdue look at the former mining of fluorspar along the Ohio River in Illinois and Kentucky, a largely forgotten industry. The brave miners and the machines that brought the colorful mineral to the surface come to life in the book's splendid collection of historic photos. Russell clearly illustrates that coal extraction was not the only show in Illinois's mining world. --Taylor Pensoneau, author of Reporting on Life--and People along the Way

Until now, the story of our local miners' tribulation and triumph in producing the strategic mineral fluorspar has been untold. Herbert K. Russell's Fluorspar Mining is a captivating visual essay of the vital role these great men played in winning two world wars. --Ed Clement, director, Ben E. Clement Mineral Museum Fluorspar Mining: Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995 is an excellent pictorial history of one of the most important fluorspar mining regions in the world. The historical photographs and complementary text will be of interest to anyone seeking information about the mining practices or people of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District. --F. Brett Denny, associate economic geologist, Illinois State Geological Survey At last, author Herbert K. Russell provides a long overdue look at the former mining of fluorspar along the Ohio River in Illinois and Kentucky, a largely forgotten industry. The brave miners and the machines that brought the colorful mineral to the surface come to life in the book's splendid collection of historic photos. Russell clearly illustrates that coal extraction was not the only show in Illinois's mining world. --Taylor Pensoneau, author of Reporting on Life--and People along the Way

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Herbert K. Russell, formerly the Executive Director for College Relations at John A. Logan College, is a literary scholar and southern Illinois historian who has been a college teacher, an editor and a writer. He is the author of The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History, Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography and editor of A Southern Illinois Album, Southern Illinois Coal: A Portfolio, and The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters' Uncollected Spoon River Poems.

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