Evidence of Many Years of Copper Mining.
“ Later we pass the great stack of the Anaconda smelter, …. “(Cont.next)
Approach to Anaconda, MT Most of the green hills are “copper mining waste dumps” that have recently been reclaimed. To take this photo, I climbed up to the top of the dump on the north side of highway. When I stopped to take this photo, there were copper green colored rocks in the ditch long the road. The green may have been a deposit from water run-off from the dump piles, or actual pieces of copper ore.
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(Photo = 109-0971c ...... ZMM Page = 236 ...... WayPt = 241x 5486ft)