Tin Mine Mountain (also called Tin Mountain) is a
summit in
Madison County in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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. It has an elevation of .
Tin Mine Mountain rises about 500 feet above the
St. Francis River which flows past the west end of the mountain. The USGS quadrangle map shows the mountain as having two peaks (a western peak at 1121 ft. and an eastern peak at 1141 ft.).
Missouri Route E
A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplemental routes were various roads within the state which the Missouri Department of Transportation was given in 1952 to maintain in additi ...
passes by the south side of the mountain.
Fredericktown is about seven miles to the east-northeast.
Tin Mine Mountain was named for a short-lived but expensive attempt at
tin mining
Tin mining began early in the Bronze Age, as bronze is a copper-tin alloy. Tin is a relatively rare element in the Earth's crust, with approximately 2 ppm (parts per million), compared to iron with 50,000 ppm.
History
Tin extraction and use can ...
, which ended when no tin was discovered.
References
Mountains of Madison County, Missouri
Mountains of Missouri
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