Talk:Silver Hill Mine

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A fact from Silver Hill Mine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:40, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Washington Mine, 1845

... that a silver mine (pictured) produced bullets for the Confederacy? Source: https://www.mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v16-2009-Kaas.pdf pp. 37-38
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sagyo Thu-Myat

Moved to mainspace by Generalissima (talk). Self-nominated at 09:41, 24 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Silver Hill Mine; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Length, date, close paraphrase check ok. Regarding the hook, arguably the mine supplier raw material for bullets produced at another site. Also, the Confederated States of America should be linked, "the Confederacy" might have different meanings for people outside the US. How about ALT1 - ...that silver from Silver Hill Mine (pictured), the first silver mine in the U.S., was used for Confederate bullets during the American Civil War? --Soman (talk) 11:59, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- That's more accurate, but I think too long to be punchy - I like to try to keep my hooks as short as possible. What about ALT2 ... that some Confederate bullets were sourced from a silver mine? (pictured) Generalissima (talk) 16:34, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - That works very well, on ALT2 --Soman (talk) 09:18, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General geology[edit]

There does not seem to be anything on the general geology of the region. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 12:01, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, was late last night when I finished. Added some geology information. Generalissima (talk) Generalissima (talk) 18:07, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

Passed. — ♠Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum. ♠ 01:46, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Reviewer: Ixtal (talk · contribs) 02:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I am planning on reviewing this article for GA Status, over the next couple of days. Thank you for nominating the article for GA status. I hope I will learn some new information, and that my feedback is helpful. I usually review section by section for grammar and source issues as I read, then provide general comments on the whole article. Please use {{done}} to indicate when feedback has been addressed. I encourage you to debate if you find any feedback you disagree with. If I do not answer within 48 hours, please {{ping}} me. I am quite a forgetful editor and it is likely I forgot to get back to you. — ♠Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum. ♠ 02:02, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

Lead+Infobox[edit]

Infobox image: I would consider editing the Commons image to a cropped version without the margins so that the image is more readable. It would also make it easier to read the names of the various shafts mentioned in the Company section.
- Fixed. - G

Background[edit]

I would consider moving the table to below the first paragraph so there's no big white space as there is now due to the infobox length.
- Fixed. - G
The Davidson County, North Carolina wl might best be displayed as just Davidson County, as there is no other davidson county in the Carolinas and the Carolinas are already mentioned in the same sentence.
- Fixed. - G
Roughly 200 feet - Perhaps here I'd write "While roughly 200 feet [...]" or something along those lines to ease the sentence into all the numbers. Nothing wrong with the sentence itself I just had to read it twice over to understand it so a word like "while" to introduce the first sentence in the compound could help readers

understand.

- Fixed. - G
Same comment about Cabarrus County as above
- Also fixed. - G

Washington Mining Company[edit]

each able to smelt a ton of lead - I would say "one" instead of "a" to make it clear you are referring to the measurement rather than the expression "a ton of" meaning "a lot".
- Fixed. - G
In the Philadelphia shipping paragraph you say "lead pigs" and "pig lead" -- is there a difference between the two terms or do they refer to the same thing?
- Pig lead is the lead that comprises lead pigs. I just dropped the pig from "pig lead" since its not a needed clarification. - G
Lead was shipped for processing at Philadelphia. This sentence feels redundant.
- Dropped it. -G

Zinc and Silver Mining Company[edit]

have continued the Fall of Petersburg - Continued until?
- Fixed. - G

Copyright Violations[edit]

Copyvios Detector detects no likely copyright violations.
- Ah, let me add some in. - G

General thoughts[edit]

Honestly this is a great article. Only very minor things to address. I'll go over the sources now but expect no surprises there. Is there a reason why some of the images in the Kaas source, for example, can't be added to the article as well?

- Added another image from Kaas, good point. - G

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