The Lone Pine Mine

The Lone Pine Mine (HM1B2M)

Location: Birmingham, AL 35205 Jefferson County
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Country: United States of America
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N 33° 29.515', W 86° 47.735'

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You are standing in front of the entrance to Lone Pine Mine Number 3. This mine is one of over one hundred ore mine on Red Mountain that were active between 1860 and 1960.

In the early twentieth century, iron ore was extracted from this mine and loaded onto the Mineral Railroad.

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The Lone Pine Mine's tunnels have never been completely mapped. However, some Red Mountain workings (the parts of a mine that have been excavated) are as much as fifteen miles long The extensive workings of the Valley View Mine, located about half a mile west of Vulcan Park, are shown in this map.

Ore mines were just one place where men did hard labor to support the iron industry. Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives, Catalog #7.06

The first mining on Red Mountain was relative easy. Miners used pickaxes and shovels to gather ore from a major surface outcropping. After that was gone, they had to undertake the dangerous job of underground mining. Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives, Catalog #29.81
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HM NumberHM1B2M
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Placed ByThe Goodrich Foundation and The Comer Foundation
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Date Added Sunday, October 19th, 2014 at 12:27am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 518989 N 3705841
Decimal Degrees33.49191667, -86.79558333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 33° 29.515', W 86° 47.735'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds33° 29' 30.90" N, 86° 47' 44.10" W
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Area Code(s)205
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1870-1898 Vulcan Trail, Birmingham AL 35205, US
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