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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.
Burra Burra Mine may refer to: The Burra Burra Mine — an historic (1845 – 1877) copper mine located in Burra, South Australia The Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee) — a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, United States , and named after the Australian mine
The Australian Cornish Mining Sites are historic sites in South Australia listed jointly on the Australian National Heritage List. There are two distinct sites – Burra in the mid-north of the state and Moonta Mines in the northern Yorke Peninsula region. The heritage value of both sites relates to their history as mines worked by migrant miners from Cornwall. The sites were inscribed on the ...
Mining machine parts and tools scattered about the Burra Burra Mine site. The Ducktown Basin Museum was established in 1978 by a group of local citizens intent on preserving the legacy of the Copper Basin. The museum was moved to the building that formerly housed the headquarters of the Tennessee Copper Company at the Burra Burra Mine in 1982.
It was at a time of economic gloom but he invested heavily in the South Australian Mining Association which was prospecting for copper at Burra, north of Adelaide. Their company (nicknamed "Snobs" – Captain Allen and Messrs. Stocks, Beck, Hallett, Bunce, Penny, Graham, Featherstone, Waterhouse, Sanders, Peacock, Drew, Bouch, Smith, and others ...
Pages in category "Copper mines in the United States" ... Ducktown Basin Museum and Burra Burra Mine; E. Elizabeth Mine; F. Ferris-Haggarty Mine Site; G. Gold chain ...
The northern half became the Burra Mine, one of the world's largest copper mines. [1] Most of the miners and specialists at the Burra mine were from Cornwall, with 1,000 workers at one point. [4] Roach was soon made captain at the Burra mine in charge of the underground workings, and then made chief captain of all mine operations. [1]
Burra Burra open cut mine pit. Original working buildings in the background. Until 1860 the mine was the largest metals mine in Australia. [16] From 1845 to 1877 the mine produced approximately 50,000 tonnes of copper. The mine was reopened as a modern open cut in 1971, operating for a decade with 24,000 tonnes of copper extracted. [17]