Underground Birmingham: Images from Birmingham's Iron Ore Mines

Takes readers on a visual journey through the abandoned tunnels that once fueled the city’s iron industry.

Underground Birmingham: Images from Birmingham’s Iron Ore Mines takes the reader on a pictorial journey deep into the cold, dark and long abandoned mining tunnels that are now buried and hiding along the ridge of Birmingham’s Red Mountain. Red Mountain iron ore is in the Clinton Formation, a geologic formation that runs from New York down into Alabama to the southern terminus of the App...