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  2. Copper Basin (Tennessee) - Wikipedia

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    The London-based Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and Iron Company (DCS&I) reopened the Mary Mine in 1890, and the following year the open-roast heap smelting process was first used in the basin. [23] In 1899, the Tennessee Copper Company, which had been founded earlier that year and had purchased most of the mining operations in the Copper Basin ...

  3. Ducktown Basin Museum and Burra Burra Mine - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Ducktown, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    In 1836, the Cherokee relinquished control of the Copper Basin to the U.S. government as part of lands they ceded in Tennessee and Georgia in the Treaty of New Echota. Although the U.S. removed many of the basin's Cherokee inhabitants in the march to Indian Territory, some avoided the roundup by hiding out in the surrounding mountains.

  5. Copperhill, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Copperhill is located at (34.992108, -84.374254), [9] situated in extreme southeast Tennessee, bordering North Georgia. Its twin city is McCaysville, Georgia, with the two situated as a single town aligned along a northwestward-flowing river, known as the Toccoa River in Georgia, and the Ocoee River in Tennessee, rather than the east/west state line, which cuts diagonally across streets (where ...

  6. Polk County, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Polk County was created by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly on November 23, 1839. The location for the county seat of Benton was chosen by an election held on February 4, 1840. [1] Copper was discovered in Ducktown in 1843. By the 1850s, a large mining operation was underway in southeastern Polk County; the area became known as the ...

  7. Julius Eckhardt Raht - Wikipedia

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    J. E. Raht, c. 1870. Julius Eckhardt Raht (June 26, 1826 – August 15, 1879) was a mining engineer, entrepreneur, and businessman who pioneered the mining and smelting of copper in the Copper Basin in Eastern Tennessee and reputedly became the richest man in the state.

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  9. Category:Copper Basin (Tennessee) - Wikipedia

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