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Workers at a Southern tin smelter removing ore from the leaching and bleaching processes and loading it in cars for the furnace. The raw ore comes to the plant in bags, direct from the South American mines and passes through a series of processes that result in the extraction of pure tin which serves countless war purposes of the United Nations Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, reproduction number, LC-USE6-D-006724

This photograph is by carnkie and was uploaded January 1^st 2009. © carnkie please do not copy or distribute without prior express permission.

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