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View of mines, plant, rail yard in Cardin, Oklahoma (1922) An unusual cluster of galena crystals from the Tri-State district. The gold-colored mineral is chalcopyrite. Size: 3.9 x 3.4 x 2.5 cm. The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The ...
Copper Basin Railway, Arizona; Copper Basin High School, Copperhill, Tennessee This page was last edited on 29 February 2020, at 20:16 (UTC). Text is available ...
The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra Burra Mine is located in the Copper Basin geological region, and extracted over 15 million tons (14 million metric tons) of copper ore during its 60 years of operation between 1899 and 1959.
Each county elects a sheriff, property assessor, trustee, register of deeds, and county clerk. [413] Tennessee has more than 340 municipalities. Most cities and towns use the weak mayor-council (mayor-aldermen), strong-mayor council, city commission, or council–manager forms of government. Local law enforcement is divided between county ...
The Copper Basin, also known as the Ducktown Basin, is a geological region located primarily in Polk County, Tennessee, that contains deposits of copper ore and covers approximately 60,000 acres (24,000 hectares).
Ducktown is located in a geological region known as the Copper Basin, and was the center of a major copper-mining district from 1847 until 1987.The district also produced iron, sulfur and zinc as byproducts. [7]
Geologic map for the Anadarko Basin showing thickness of strata between the Silurian Hunter Group and the Pennsylvanian Desmoinesian Anadarko Basin Geologic Cross Section. The Anadarko Basin is a geologic depositional and structural basin centered in the western part of the state of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and extending into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado.
The northernmost county US-81 serves in Oklahoma is Grant County. Still accompanied by US-60 and US-64, the route heads north from the county line for approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) before coming to a T intersection. Here, US-64 turns west, while US-81 turns east.