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Word: minehead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem, beyond solution with the techniques of Pioneer Gilson's day, was to move the Gilsonite out of mountains in bulk at low cost. American Gilsonite's solution is a 72-mile-long, $2,500,000 pipeline which daily carries a slurry of 700 tons from the minehead at Bonanza, Utah over 700-ft. gorges and across an 8,500-ft. pass to the refinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: New Industry for the West | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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