Commercial production of Zinc begins in Pennsylvania

The commercial production of zinc began at the Pennsylvania and Lehigh Zinc Company Mill, the first in the country.  The company had been incorporated the previous May. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 718.
    Date Certainty
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    Business/Industry
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