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The Sunshine Mine is located between the cities of Kellogg and Wallace in northern Idaho. It has been one of the world's largest and most profitable silver mines, having produced over 360 million ounces of silver by 2001.
The Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex (colloquially the Bunker Hill smelter) was a large smelter located in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. When built, it was the largest smelting facility in the world. [ 2 ]
When the mining boom began in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho mining district, the area was lightly inhabited. The Bunker Hill and the Sullivan companies built a boarding house for miners in 1887. [ 2 ] By 1894, the company employed 332 workers, and in the late 1890s, the company built single-family houses to attract family men.
Based in Idaho's Silver Valley, Central Mine Rescue was established in 1923 by a group of local mines to share resources in case of a disaster. ... centennial anniversary this year with a limited ...
Kellogg was incorporated in 1907. The city limits included mine property in 1955, and smelter property in 1956. The population in 1960 was about 6000. [4] Kellogg is named after a prospector named Noah Kellogg. [5] The city became a center of mining for silver. Nearly a century of mine operations produced an extensive amount of silver.
Silver Valley is a narrow valley about 40 miles (64 km) in length, east of the city of Coeur d'Alene.The South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River flows through the valley and Interstate 90 traverses the valley between Fourth of July Pass to the west and Lookout Pass on the Montana border.
The Australian owner of a cobalt mine in Central Idaho plans more extensive study of cobalt at a remote site in the Salmon River Mountains, and the potential for a cobalt refinery, after securing ...
The county seat is Wallace and the largest city is Kellogg. The county was established in 1864, named for the Native American Shoshone tribe. Shoshone County is commonly referred to as the Silver Valley, due to its century-old mining history. The Silver Valley is famous nationwide for the vast amounts of silver, lead, and zinc mined from it.