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Kennecott Mines

Kennecott Mines, United States. Heritage site, underground, mining copper.

Why Kennecott Mines is famous

Rich copper ore found in 1900 and the first trainload shipped in April 1911. The camp closed in 1938.1,2

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Kennecott Mines today

Where copper is mined todayMining in United States

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People

Financed byDaniel GuggenheimGuggenheim money opened Alaska's copper and the Kennecott mine.3

Mines

ExamplesCalumet and Hecla (Keweenaw)Both US copper camps: Calumet's merger of 1871, Kennecott's ore found in 1900.4

Places

Located inKennecottKennecott Mines sits at Kennecott.1

Sources

  1. Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark US National Park Service
  2. Wikidata entity Q995915
  3. Guggenheim, Daniel Encyclopedia.com (reprinting a publisher's reference work)
  4. Keweenaw National Historical Park timeline US National Park Service

Pictures on this page: Daniel Guggenheim.jpg, Bain News Service, New York. (Public domain).

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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