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Park City

Boom town, United States, founded 1869.

About Park City

City in Summit County, Utah, United States.1

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People

Worked atJoe HillJoe Hill worked in the Park City mines from 1913.2

Mines

Worked atBingham CanyonBingham Canyon lies about 57 km away.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q482993 (Park City)
  2. Joe Hill Utah Division of State History (History To Go)

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: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.