Lead exposure is a global issue as lead mining and lead smelting are common in many countries.

In recent times the largest mining and milling operations were in the " New Lead Belt " some east of Salem.

St. Joe Lead started the mining boom at Viburnum in neighboring Iron County and soon other major mining companies bought land and mineral rights.

Lead mining began around neighboring Galena in 1919.

This new plant and the consolidation of several local mining companies under the Desloge family name became known as the Desloge Consolidated Lead Company.

Desloge Missouri and the regional Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District became one of the principal lead mining centers in the US.

The town is located in Old Lead Belt, formerly a large lead mining district.

The Desloge lead mining business Desloge Consolidated Lead Company was later relocated to Desloge, MO by his son Firmin V. Desloge

Lead mining was also important.

Lead mining was certainly flourishing in Roman times.

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Lead mining fell off in the early 19th Century and the Bonawe Furnace closed in 1876.

Lead mining has been the principal activity in the Glendalough valley and its neighbouring valleys of Glendasan and Glenmalure.

Lead and copper mining on the Edge is documented in the late 17th century and 18th century.

The name of Bleiburg, literally meaning ' Lead Castle ', can be attributed to the lead mining operations in the Peca mountain.

Lead ore was Crown property in most places and the mining area of Derbyshire under royal control was known as the King's Field, with two separately administered divisions, the High and Low Peaks, each further divided into liberties, based on parishes.

Lead mining and smelting was an established industry in 1086, when the mines at Wirksworth and Bakewell were recorded in the Domesday Book.

Lead mining in the Peak District.

* Slack, R. Lead miner's heyday: the great days of mining in Wirksworth and the Low Peak of Derbyshire.

* Willies, L. Lead and lead mining, Shire, 1982

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Lead mining in Weardale reached its greatest levels during the 18th and 19th centuries, when the London Lead and Beaumont Companies dominated mining throughout the region.

Lead was transported by wagon from Neosho to Indian Territory, then shipped down the Arkansas River and Mississippi River to New Orleans.

According to Dixon & Godrich ( 1981 ) and Leadbitter and Slaven ( 1968 ), Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress researchers did not record any Delta bluesmen ( or women ) prior to 1941, when he recorded Son House and Willie Brown near Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, and Muddy Waters at Stovall, Mississippi ; however, this claim is disputed as John and Alan Lomax did record Bukka White in 1939, Lead Belly in 1933 and most likely others.

As a duo, Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive Number 1 hits between 1971 and 1975: their first release " After the Fire Is Gone " ( 1971 ), won them a Grammy award, " Lead Me On " ( 1971 ), " Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man " ( 1973 ), " As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone " ( 1974 ), and " Feelins '" ( 1974 ).

It was a success, and many more followed, including " Lead Me On " ( 1971 ), " Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man " ( 1973 ), " As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone " ( 1974 ), " Feelins '" ( 1975 ), " I Still Believe in Waltzes ", " I Can't Love You Enough ", and many others.

The formal geological name for the Lead Belt is the " Southeastern Missouri Mississippi Valley-type Mineral District.

The trail continued westward through the Little River area to the Lead Mines.

On the east are: Mount Nimbus, Mount Cumulus, Howard Mountain, Mount Cirrus, Mount Richthofen, Lead Mountain, North Diamond Peak and Clark Peak whose eastern slope waters drain into the North Platte River.

Lead, zinc, copper and silver are still mined at some places in the Kootenay River basin, notably at the giant Sullivan Mine near Kimberley, British Columbia, which is the largest in the Kootenay watershed.

Peter Thompson moved to Alzada from Lead, Dakota Territory, in 1890, with his brother William and homesteaded north of Alzada on the Little Missouri River at Nine Mile Creek.

:" From the North-western Corner of the North Inch, on the Right Bank of the River Tay, in a straight Line to the Bridge on the Mill Lead at the Boot of Balhousie ; thence in a straight Line to the Bridge on the Glasgow Road over the Scouring Burn ; thence in a straight Line to the Southern Corner of the Water Reservoir of the Dept ; thence in a straight Line to the Southern Corner of the Friarton Pier on the River Tay ; thence across the River Tay ( passing to the South of the Friarton Island ) to the Point at which the same is met by the Boundary of the respective Parishes of Kinfauns and Kinnoul ; thence, Northward, along the Boundary of the Parish of Kinfauns to the Point at which the several Boundaries of the Properties of Kinfauns, Kinnoul, and Barnhill meet ; thence in a straight Line to the North-eastern Corner of Lord Kinnoul's Lodge, at the Gate of Approach to Kinnoul Hill ; thence in a straight Line to the North-eastern Corner of the Enclosure of the Lunatic Asylum ; thence in a straight Line to the Point at which the Annatty Burn crosses the Blairgowrie Road ; thence down the Annatty Burn to the Point at which the same joins the River Tay ; thence in a straight Line to the Point first described.

Scotchmans Lead sits between the Yarrowee River, Midland Highway and Scotchmans Lead Road.

On September 15, using the call sign " John Red Lead ", Risner's flight escorted F-84 Thunderjet fighter-bombers attacking a chemical plant on the Yalu River near the East China Sea.

p. 328 "... the Welsh miners came from Bristol, England to the wilderness of Virginia and had produced lead successfully ... it soon became apparent that the lead mines were vital to the War for Independence .. there was a great scarcity in this country ... the New River Lead Mines became the primary source of lead for the colonies.

St. Francois County is a county located in the Lead Belt region in Missouri in the United States.

Madison County is a county located in the Lead Belt region in Southeast Missouri in the United States.

Iron County is a county located in the Lead Belt region in Southeast Missouri in the United States.

Lead sulfide ( PbS ) and indium antimonide ( InSb ) LDRs ( light dependent resistor ) are used for the mid infrared spectral region.

Farmington is a city in St. Francois County located south of St. Louis in the Lead Belt region in Missouri in the United States.

Will returns to the headquarters of the Resistance after several months in the City of Gold and Lead, where he and Fritz ( who has escaped the city some time after Will and found his way back to the Resistance ) travel to Eastern Europe, the Caucasus region, and the Middle East and set up resistance cells with young boys who question the power of the Tripods.

Lead mining in the Dubuque region was an early economic force ; no lead is mined in Iowa today.

KNBN can also be seen on translators KKRA-LP on UHF channel 24 and K40GS-D on UHF channel 40 ; both stations are licensed in Rapid City, though K40GS-D mainly serves Lead and the Black Hills region.

* South Dakota State University is the " National Lead Sun Grant Center " and hosts the North-Central Center for the region composed of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming