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- Reply Laura_Lucky
- are there any valuble mine here ???
- Reply sedgehead
- Not that I know of on the US Forest Service land. If there were, I would probably know. However, from about 1885 to 1910, zinc and copper mines operated southeast of Yellville and in other locations in Arkansas. I have been in several of them as a boy years ago. The town of Yellville was a boom town, growing to more than 10,000 people in the early 1900s. Soon, however, mines in South America and elsewhere, began producing those same minerals but at a much lower cost, mainly because of cheaper labor (people willing to work for less money) and the mines were closed and have remained closed for a hundred years or more.
Laura_Lucky: are there any valuble mine here ???
