BLACKWATER MINERAL
Mississippi, 1952 The river was black because of the tannins that leached from the decaying vegetation in the floodplain, and the town of Blackwater, Mississippi, was named after the river, and the mineral that Seth Whitfield found in the abandoned mine thirty yards from the riverbank was black for a different reason entirely: it was denser than coal, with a metallic sheen that caught the dim...
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