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White Pine mine - White Pine, Ontonagon County; the last mine to close in the Copper Country, in 1995; Whittlesey mine - Isle Royale, Keweenaw County; Winona mine - Winona, Houghton County; Winthrop mine - Central; Wolverine Mine - Wolverine; Wyandot mine - Twin Lakes, Houghton County; Wyoming mine - Wyoming (Helltown)
This is a list of Superfund sites in Washington State designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to ...
Copper Lake is located in North Cascades National Park, in the U. S. state of Washington. [2] Copper Lake lies along the route followed by the Copper Ridge Trail, which is accessed from a trailhead in Mount Baker National Forest. The hike to the lake is over 11 mi (18 km) one-way and includes an altitude gain of almost 2,000 ft (610 m). [3]
Ghost towns in Central, Southeastern Washington. Liberty. One of the most well-known ghost towns in Washington state is Liberty in Kittitas County.It’s in the Swauk Mining District, which was ...
In the American era, the first successful copper mine, the Cliff mine, began operations in 1845, and many others quickly followed. The last major copper mine in Michigan, the White Pine mine, shut down in 1995, after unsuccessfully applying for a permit to convert the underground mine to an in-situ leaching operation.
The first mining claims in the area, the Silver Creek Mining District, were located by George White and Hill Tyler in 1871. [5] Hans Hansen recorded the Norwegian Claim along Silver Creek in 1874. Monte Cristo stakeholders considered building a railway passing through Mineral City to Monte Cristo via a tunnel under or switchback over Poodle Dog ...
Also known as the Salmon Creek District, the Ruby Mining District is an abandoned mining district in north central Washington State, founded in 1887 by Thomas D. Fuller. . The principle mined ore was silver, though, copper, lead, and small amounts of gold were also extrac
Open pit, copper-molybdenum ore, producing copper cathode, copper and molybdenum concentrates 286 (2021) [2] 2 Bingham Canyon: Salt Lake County, Utah: Rio Tinto: Open pit copper-molybdenum ore, producing copper cathode, molybdenum concentrate, gold, silver, sulfuric acid 202 (2021) [3] 3 Safford