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U.S. Bureau of Mines, Helium Plants, Exell Helium Plant, Highway 287N, Masterson, Moore County, TX

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Significance: The advances in helium technology developed at the Amarillo plant were implemented at Exell, the U.S. Bureau of Mines' principal helium producer from 1945 to 1998. Exell was the last of the government-operated helium plants to shut down after Congress passed the Helium Privatization Act in 1996.

Survey number: HAER TX-105-B

Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1956 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1986 Subsequent Work

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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

label_outline Explore Exell Helium Plant, Exell, Helium Plants

Gold-Covered Desk chair (fauteuil de bureau)

A clearance diver able seaman from the British Royal Navy Fleet Diving Unit 3 and assigned to Task Group 522.3 conducts a search for mines while participating in International Mine Countermeasures Exercise

Melrose Plantation, Creole Barn, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Jack Daniel's statue and spring, Lynchburg (Moore Country), Tennessee

[Assignment: BIS_2005_8484_30] Bureau of Industry and Security - United States and China Review Commission Peter Lichtenbaum Testimony [40_CFD_6_23_05_ChinaHearing_DSC_2021.JPG]

Carew, Bampfylde Moore - Public domain portrait engraving

Colleen Moore - Public domain portrait photograph

Mr. M. Taradash, Irvington-on-Hudson. Bureau I

[Assignment: 48-DPA-10-20-08_SOI_K_Tuba] Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to the Tuba City Boarding School [on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona--largest school in the Bureau of Indian Education system. Joining Secretary Kempthorne for the tour of new buildings and classrooms, and for discussions with students, teachers, and parents, were education officials including Bureau of Indian Education Director Kevin Skenandore, Indian Affairs Office of Facilities, Environmental and Cultural Resources Director Jack Rever, Tuba City Boarding School Principal Don Coffland, and Tuba City School Governing Board President Frieda Maloney.] [48-DPA-10-20-08_SOI_K_Tuba_DOI_2303.JPG]

U.S. Navy Operations SPECIALIST Second Class Phillip Montgomery, with the Austin Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship USS NASHVILLE (LPD 13), updates a status board on Aug. 22, 2006 in the Red Sea. The NASHVILLE is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism and Maritime Security Operations.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST First Class Shonn Moore) (Released)

Caterpillar tractor cutting a road through the forest for the Alcan Highway

Hungarian miner, Calumet, Pennsylvania. Worked in the mines for thirty-four years, now sixty-three with no pension and no work

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defense industry masterson bureau mines helium plants helium plants exell exell helium plant highway moore moore county texas historic american engineering record photo library of congress