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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 6, 2022
Caption: Mining The Berkeley Pit 1955-1982 Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top left) The Berkeley Mine head frame in the background was the starting point for digging the Berkeley Pit. A high ore concentration right below the surface make it logical place to begin open pit mining.; (top right) An Anaconda Co. artist's rendition of the Butte Hill in the 1950's showing the Berkeley Pit and other facilities nearby.; (bottom left) t(bottom center) Here is an Anaconda Co. building in the McQueen neighborhood being buried to make way for pit expansion.; This 1952 photo shows Anaconda Hill and the neighborhood of Dublin Gulch. The head frame in the center is the Kelley Mine (still standing just north of the pit). The foreground mines are the Anaconda and the Neversweat, two of Butte's earliest and most profitable mines. The west rim of the Berkeley Pit now engulfs the area where these head frames once stood.; (bottom right) The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology graphics show the tunnels from years of underground mining. The red dots represent vertical mine shafts, and the colored sketches under the surface represent the horizontal levels of each mine. The graphic does not illustrate stopes or other lateral workings.
Submitted: September 10, 2022, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p677898
File Size: 3.065 Megabytes

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