Washing Brown Iron Ore at the Shilovsky Mine near Makarova

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1912 • Russia (Federation), Ural Mountains Region

Washing Brown Iron Ore at the Shilovsky Mine near Makarova, Russia (Federation), Ural Mountains Region, 1912

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Washing Brown Iron Ore at the Shilovsky Mine near Makarova — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1912 (Russia (Federation), Ural Mountains Region).

Subjects: miners, ural mountains region, iron mining.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Promyvka rudy burago zheliezniaka na Shilovskom rudnikie v 7 verst. ot der. Makarovoĭ.