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Get PriceLooking back at Butte s most deadly mining disaster Posted Updated By John Emeigh MTN News Bio While there s currently no underground mining in Butte the headframes continue to stand
Get Price· Our displays and exhibits focus on mining and the related culture and ethnic groups that made Butte MT their home The World Museum of Mining offers two underground mine tous that take you into the depths of the Orphan Girl mine and most people really have no idea what it takes to get minerals and ore out of the
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Get Price· In November of 1995 a large flock of migrating snow geese heading south for the winter took refuge from a snowstorm and landed on the unfrozen surface of an open pit copper mine on the outskirts of Butte Montana
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Get PriceIn Butte Montana tourists flock to a gorgeous Superfund site for selfies kitsch and a frisson of danger Instead of using humans to crawl around underground tunnels and dig out ore massive machines were used to dig out vast areas of earth and gigantic trucks hauled away much more material than any single human ever could As these
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Get Price· In 1917 a massive mine fire killed 168 miners trapped underground at the Granite Mountain site Today a memorial to those lost in the disaster is in place at the top of the hill in Butte Click
Get PriceUnderground ore was mined at Butte from the four types of veins described below Gold is not listed because it is a byproduct and occurs in very low concentrations Molybdenum is not listed because it was never mined from underground
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Get PriceThe Boulder Batholith and the Richest Hill on Earth T both the development of many underground mines and the city of Butte From a few dozen gold prospectors in 1864 • The total amount of copper recovered from Butte ore is enough to put a
Get PriceThe underground mines of Butte dominated world copper production between 1887 and 1920 By 1916 over 14 000 miners worked the underground mines on rotating shifts around the clock At one point about a forth of the world s copper was coming out of Butte
Get PriceUnderground copper mining in Butte Montana since the 1870 s has resulted in over 49 miles of vertical shafts and 5 600 miles of horizontal workways In 1955 high copper prices drove Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Get PriceThe Butte mining district is one of the major mining districts of the world with continuous production from both underground and open pit mines for 119 years from 1864 to 1983 During this time mining activites at Butte have introduced many firsts in mining methods techniques of mine mapping and the detailed recording of geologic data This field
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