Anaconda Mine and Smelting Works
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| Anaconda was a heavy mining and mineral processing town, with several industrial complexes, now closed down after the mining ceased around 1980. Some of the mine is part of the nation's largest Superfund Site, and a Jack Nicklaus-designed 18-hole golf course has recently been built incorporating some of the industrial remains into the course. There are plans to continue to develop much of the area as a tourist attraction, perhaps even a National Park. ARCO owns all of the Anaconda Company's holdings in the area now, including much of the 120 mile long Superfund toxic site, extending down the Clark River drainage area, which is contaminated with arsenic and heavy metals. The 585-foot-tall smelter stack, all that remains of the Anaconda Reduction Works, is "one of the highest free-standing brick structures in the world." Built in 1919, it was left as a lonely remainder of a once vast industrial complex, and it sits in a 12 acre State Park, which is not open to the public. |
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20 miles NW of Butte, in Anaconda
(POINT(-114.87733840942 47.277715006765))
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Deer Lodge County |
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| The stack is located on Highway 1, in Anaconda. The Old Works Golf Course is located near town as well. |
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http://fwp.state.mt.us/parks/stparks.htm
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Abandoned Site, Processing, Tailings
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Mining
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