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The East Bay Vivarium is a shop located in Berkeley, California, in the United States. The store is more than forty years old, and is the oldest and largest store of its kind in the United States. [1] [2] It sells snakes, lizards, various other reptiles and amphibians, as well as the supplies to maintain and care for them. The store is open to ...
The Berkeley Pit in May 1984. Note the much higher water level in the more recent fisheye view, below. Composite Fisheye View of the Berkeley Pit, April 2005. The underground Berkeley Mine was located on a prominent vein extending to the southeast from the main Anaconda vein system (sometimes called "the richest hill on earth" [7]).
Urban Ore is a salvage yard in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1980, it has two separate retail divisions, the General Store and Building Materials Exchange, which sell different types of items, which are dropped off daily by self-haulers.
The Anaconda Copper Mine was a large copper mine in Butte, Montana that closed operations in 1947 and was eventually consumed by the Berkeley Pit, a vast open-pit mine. [1] Originally a silver mine, it was bought for $30,000 in 1881 by an Irish immigrant named Marcus Daly from Michael Hickey, a Civil War veteran, and co-owner Charles X. Larabie ...
ARCO closed the Berkeley Pit and shut off the deep pumps in 1982, allowing the pit and mines to fill with water. The Continental Pit, the last active Anaconda mining property in Butte, was closed in 1982, but resumed mining in the early 2000's. Six years after ARCO acquired rights to the "Richest Hill on Earth", Butte's mines were completely idle.
The Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the "Whole Earth Truck Store", a 1963 Dodge truck. In 1968, the "Truck Store" finally settled into its permanent location in Menlo Park, California. [1] In 1969, a store that was inspired by (but not financially connected with) the Whole Earth Catalog, called Whole Earth Access opened in Berkeley.
The water is collected at a depth of 150 feet from the far west side of the Pit below the viewing stand, and is pumped up and around the south and east walls of the Pit to the precipitation plant, north east of the Pit. The "Precip Plant" uses a centuries-old technology operation where water flows through piles of recycled scrap iron.
The Nature Company was a Berkeley, California-based chain of retail stores that sold scientific toys, telescopes, artwork, fossils, minerals and gems, books, clothing, and music CDs. The Nature Company was founded in 1972 by Priscilla and Tom Wrubel.