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The Anaconda Copper Mine is an open pit copper mine in Lyon County, Nevada that was owned and operated by the Anaconda Mining Company. It is located adjacent to the town of Yerington . A company town , Weed Heights , was built to support the mining operation, which ran from 1952 until 1978. [ 1 ]
The Anaconda Company bought the homes, businesses and schools of the working-class communities of Meaderville, East Butte, and McQueen, east of the pit site. Many of these homes were either destroyed, buried, or moved to the southern end of Butte. Residents were compensated at market value for their acquired property. [citation needed]
This is a list of Superfund sites in Nevada designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
This Superfund mega site includes the cities of Butte, Anaconda, Deer Lodge, and Bonner-Milltown (just upriver of Missoula). The contamination extends along a river corridor of 120 miles (190 km) that reaches from Butte to the Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site and includes adjacent areas such as the Anaconda Smelter Stack.
Sep. 29—U.S. Minerals, Inc., a corporation accused of exposing employees to elevated levels of arsenic at its Anaconda facility, admitted violating the Clean Air Act last week. According to ...
List of Superfund sites in Nevada; A. Anaconda Copper Mine (Nevada) This page was last edited on 7 June 2018, at 02:47 (UTC). Text is ...
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana.It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.
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