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Any of you guys from North Central La heard of lead mine.....
Posted on 1/19/18 at 4:42 pm
Posted on 1/19/18 at 4:42 pm
(taken from outdoor board) - Wondering if any of you from the Arcadia, Ruston area ever heard old timers talk of a lead mine at Mt Driskell? Years ago I spoke with a Mr Driskell (very old) and he told me of a mine he was taken to as a little boy. He said one night he was awakened by a loud noise that his father said it was the mine collapsing. ULM professor also told me there once was a mine there.
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Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:30 pm to jeffsdad
That’s further north and west than the area I grew up in. But my grandpa used to tell a story of some old timers in north lasalle/Caldwell parish going out into the woods and coming back with lead for bullets. Pre ww2 era.
ETA: I know that’s not what you were asking but I guess I’m just saying there could be lead in them there hills. Who knows.
ETA: I know that’s not what you were asking but I guess I’m just saying there could be lead in them there hills. Who knows.
This post was edited on 1/19/18 at 5:39 pm
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:38 pm to jeffsdad
I Just found out a few months back that there are several coal mines in northwest LA, south of Shreveport. So it wouldn't surprise me if there were lead mines in that area.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:51 pm to jeffsdad
That was a gold mine. They just told the locals they were looking for lead.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:56 pm to jeffsdad
Yes - There's a documentary about it on Netflix called Godless, watch it.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:57 pm to jeffsdad
Well, that’s all sedimentary rock from what I can tell. Don’t see how there could be veins of metal ore in those rocks. But hell, who knows.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:58 pm to The Torch
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Yes - There's a documentary about it on Netflix called Godless, watch it.
Is that decent? I've had on my watch list for months
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:59 pm to BigDroop
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I Just found out a few months back that there are several coal mines in northwest LA, south of Shreveport. So it wouldn't surprise me if there were lead mines in that area.
Those are open pit strip mining for lignite coal in Desoto parish, a few miles west of I-49.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 6:39 pm to jdeval1
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Is that decent? I've had on my watch list for months
It's pretty good, about a town of women where all the men died in a mine like Bienville Parish.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 7:12 pm to jeffsdad
Elsewhere in North America, there are sedimentary rocks that have what's called "boxwork" structures in them, which are left over vein fillings of cracks in rocks that accumulated over time, and the boxworks themselves could be refined to an impure lead like product.
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