Word: cinnabars
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Well, maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...
Eighty-five percent of the world's productive veins of quicksilver ore (cinnabar) lie in Spain and Italy. The great Spanish mine of Almaden, worked at least since Hannibal's time, was a prime pawn in the late Spanish war. A European cartel, pioneered by the Rothschilds, controls the world price. No. 1 world consumer, the U. S. uses 25,000 to 35,000 flasks * a year, normally buys half its quicksilver from the cartel, produces nearly all the rest itself...
...Shasta Indians never enjoyed a war fully unless they had first smeared their faces with reddish cinnabar (mercury sulfide), which they got from a big deposit in northern California. Last week it appeared that California's mercury mines, and smaller mines in Oregon, Texas, Arkansas, may soon be furnishing European braves with mercury for war: for antifouling paint for battleship bottoms, photographs, batteries, medicine, and especially for mercury fulminate detonators...
...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...
...matter how the lodes were discovered, southwest Arkansas was booming in minor key last week. A lumber company at Graysonia, which had finished clearing all the available timber in the district and was about to move, turned hands loose at mining cinnabar and transformed its sawmill to a mercury refining plant. Amity also has a mine and refinery. Murfreesboro is another centre. All around farmers are melting red rocks. About 1,000 strangers are in the neighborhood. They want mining rights and whiskey, raising a pretty problem for the hearth-tenders up the creeks-whether to distill moonshine or quicksilver...