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Iron Mountain Mine, also known as the Richmond Mine at Iron Mountain, is a mine near Redding in Northern California, US. Geologically classified as a "massive sulfide ore deposit", the site was mined for iron , silver , gold , copper , zinc , quartz , and pyrite intermittently from the 1860s until 1963.
The Iron Mountain Pump Plant sits adjacent to the east side of the range and the Colorado River Aqueduct traverses the range through the Iron Mountain Tunnel. [2] During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, near the Iron Mountains the US Army built Camp Iron Mountain to train troops and prepare them to do battle in North Africa to fight the Nazis.
registered as California Historical Landmark #786. Golden Fleece Tunnel 39°11′09″N 120°37′02″W / 39.185735°N 120.617152°W / 39.185735; -120.
Iron Mountain Inc. is an American enterprise information management services company founded in 1951 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.Its records management, information destruction, and data backup and recovery services are supplied to more than 220,000 customers [2] in 58 countries throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
The 8,007 ft (2,441 m) peak is sometimes referenced as Iron Mountain #1 or Big Iron, was originally called Sheep Mountain by the early miners in San Gabriel Canyon because of the large bands of bighorn sheep that roamed the slopes.
By the 1960s, the US government began stashing records there and still uses the facility to this day. Iron Mountain, a storage provider, purchased the converted mine in 1998 and leases space there ...
Eventually, the Iron Mountain Mine closed, but pollution continued and still continues, and in 1983, the Iron Mountain Mine was listed on the National Priorities List. [4] The Iron Mountain Mine is known for having the most acidic naturally found water content on Earth, with samples having up to a −3.6 pH value when tested in the early 1990s ...
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