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- From: dbsjwb@Edm.Arco.COM (James Bielak)
- Subject: Re: Walk on Mercury?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.193130.11457@Arco.COM>
- Originator: dbsjwb@doofus
- Sender: news@Arco.COM
- Reply-To: bielak@arco.com
- Organization: ARCO Exploration and Production Technology
- References: <1992Jul29.144611.23703@access.usask.ca> <1992Jul30.123759@sicsun.epfl.ch> <1992Jul30.142203.3437@nuchat.sccsi.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:31:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.142203.3437@nuchat.sccsi.com>, steve@nuchat.sccsi.com
- (Steve Nuchia) writes:
- |> Some years ago I saw a photo in National Geographic showing a
- |> pool of mercury with two people floating on it. The article
- |> was about some kind of mining operation (Silver?) in which
- ^^^^^^^
- It was actually about the mercury mines in Spain (Almaden?). The participant(s)
- were wearing no special protection, were just sitting in a huge tub of Hg,
- sinking in at the butt maybe 3-4 inches....
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- Wonder if they're still around?
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