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Bunker Hill Mine (Coeur d'Alene)

Bunker Hill Mine (Coeur d'Alene), United States. Closed, underground, mining silver, lead, zinc.

Why Bunker Hill Mine (Coeur d'Alene) is famous

Coeur d'Alene basin is a leading silver, lead and zinc producer. About 62 Mt of tailings were discharged to streams until 1968, the site joined the National Priorities List in 1983, and the cleanup area is a 21-square-mile Box. Coordinates blank.1,2

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Timeline

  1. 1972Sunshine silver mine fire3

Bunker Hill Mine (Coeur d'Alene) today

Where silver is mined todayWhere lead is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayMining in United States

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Mines

ExamplesKabwe (Broken Hill) lead mineKabwe polluted from 1904 to 1994. Bunker Hill's cleanup area is 21 square miles.4ExamplesLaurion silver minesSilver-lead paid for Athenian ships. Coeur d'Alene silver-lead left 62 Mt of tailings in streams.1

Events

Led toSunshine silver mine fireRead what happened near Bunker Hill Mine (Coeur d'Alene): Sunshine silver mine fire.1

Sources

  1. Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex US Environmental Protection Agency
  2. Wikidata item Q49402671 (Bunker Hill Mine, Shoshone County) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. Fact Sheet 95-8: Historical Data on Mine Disasters in the United States US Mine Safety and Health Administration
  4. Zambia: tackle lead poisoning at former mine (27 July 2021) Human Rights Watch

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0. Pictures: South Africa: a crowd of people gathered outside The Goldfields offices in Johannesburg. 1896., Unknown (Wellcome Collection) (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Falu gruva, Lundberg, Bengt A / Europeana (CC0 1.0).