• The Empire Zinc strike, also known as the Salt of the Earth strike, was a 15-month-long miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico against the Empire Zinc...
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  • The following is a list of miners' strikes. Miners' strikes are when miners conduct strike actions. List of strikes History of coal mining in the United...
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  • [citation needed] In the 1950s, Empire Zinc Company was involved in a labor dispute known as the Empire Zinc strike, which was a major event in the history...
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  • book by Pope Benedict XVI Empire Zinc strike, also known as the Salt of the Earth strike, a 1950–1952 American miners' strike Salting the earth, the ritual...
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    Biberman's Salt of the Earth (1954). The story was based on the 1951 Empire Zinc strike in Grant County, New Mexico. She played Esperanza Quintero, the wife...
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    difficult strike, based on the 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico. The company is identified as "Delaware Zinc", and...
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    the Wayback Machine ——— (2001), "The empire strikes out: Imperial Russia, 'national' identity, and theories of empire", in Holquist, Peter; Suny, Ronald...
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  • 1954 film Salt of the Earth was based on the 1951 strike against New Jersey Zinc Company’s Empire Zinc mine in Bayard, New Mexico. In February 2016, Horsehead...
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    domination, New Mexican miners went out on strike at the Empire Zinc Company in Hanover, New Mexico. This strike began over wages, benefits, and safety,...
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    The Economy of the Empire of Japan refers to the period in Japanese economic history in Imperial Japan that began with the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and...
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    Denver Durango Telluride The Colorado Labor Wars were a series of labor strikes in 1903 and 1904 in the U.S. state of Colorado, by gold and silver miners...
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    Spanish empire, providing a great percentage of the silver that was shipped to Europe. Potosi is also the location of the San Cristóbal silver, zinc and lead...
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  • Trepča Mines (category Zinc smelters)
    of refined lead and over 50% of refined zinc in Yugoslavia. The 1989 Kosovo miners' strike was a hunger strike initiated by some workers of the Trepča...
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    process which led to the zinc component being gradually lost as it burned off in the high temperatures needed to melt copper (zinc melts at 419 °C but boils...
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    of wheat, canola, and other grains. The country is a leading exporter of zinc, uranium, gold, nickel, platinoids, aluminum, steel, iron ore, coking coal...
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    then a strike can be first deposited that is compatible with both. One example of this situation is the poor adhesion of electrolytic nickel on zinc alloys...
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    Bisbee Deportation (category 1917 labor disputes and strikes)
    Bisbee—went on strike.[page needed] Although the strike was peaceful, local authorities immediately asked for federal troops to break the strike. Cochise County...
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  • Anaconda Road massacre (category 1920 labor disputes and strikes)
    On April 21, 1920, during a miners strike in Butte, Montana's copper mines, company guards fired on striking miners picketing near a mine of the Anaconda...
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  • The Leadville miners' strike was a labor action by the Cloud City Miners' Union, which was the Leadville, Colorado local of the Western Federation of Miners...
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    largest world producer of tin and antimony; seventh largest producer of zinc, eighth largest producer of lead, fourth largest world producer of boron;...
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    million in cash and the rest in Glencore shares. In 2013, Glencore-controlled zinc producer Kazzinc, acquired the Vasilkovskoye gold mine in Kazakhstan from...
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    pollution) from the American Steel and Wire plant and U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works in Donora, Pennsylvania. In three days, 20 people died... After the...
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    1802 to 1883 before being a French protectorate. During its existence, the empire expanded into modern-day southern Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos through a...
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  • King of the Mountain Cometh" was only released as a single in Japan. "Think Zinc" was only released as a single in Germany and Spain. "Precious Star" was...
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    available. It also colors most toothpaste and sunscreen. Zinc white is made from zinc oxide. Zinc oxide is used in paints, suntan lotion, and some foods...
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  • Thumbnail for 1892 Coeur d'Alene labor strike
    The 1892 Coeur d'Alene labor strike erupted in violence when labor union miners discovered they had been infiltrated by a Pinkerton agent who had routinely...
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    non-union miners to join or strike. Angered by wage cuts, Coeur d'Alene area miners conducted a strike in 1892. The strike erupted in violence when union...
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    Gold ore dumps are the source of many heavy elements such as cadmium, lead, zinc, copper, arsenic, selenium and mercury. When sulfide-bearing minerals in...
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    Range (located in the United States' Upper Peninsula of Michigan) went on strike in July 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War. They were...
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  • decided to strike after contract negotiations stalled in protest of racial injustice and indignities suffered while employed by Empire Zinc Company, then...
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