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Satellite image showing the Copper Basin in 1984. The state of Georgia began suing the Tennessee Copper Company in the mid-1880s, claiming that the mining operations were causing damage to forests and crops in northern Georgia. In 1904, smokestacks were constructed to disperse the pollution; this, however, only worsened the problem. [8]
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.
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]
Pages in category "Copper Basin (Tennessee)" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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.
Polk County is a county located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 17,544. [2] Its county seat is Benton. [3]
The Copper Basin, located in the extreme southeastern corner of Tennessee in Polk County, was the center of a major copper-mining district from 1847 until 1987. The district also produced iron, sulfur and zinc as byproducts. [ 56 ]
[69] [70] The Copper Basin, in Tennessee's southeastern corner in Polk County, was one of the nation's most productive copper mining districts between the 1840s and 1980s. [71] Mines in the basin supplied about 90% of the copper the Confederacy used during the Civil War, [ 72 ] and also marketed chemical byproducts of the mining, including ...