The Billing Smelter
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The exterior of the Billing smelter at Park City, New Mexico
Image taken:
circa
1884
by: J. E. Smith
©
1884
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Historic Photograph Archives
Longitude: -106.927508
Latitude: 34.049339
(WGS 84 or NAD 83)
About this image
Gustav Billing purchased and developed the Kelly mine at Magdalena, New Mexico and constructed a large-scale smelting complex at Park City (near Socorro) to treat its ores in 1883.
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Image posted: 12-17-2021