Records. ca. 1890s-1986.

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Records. ca. 1890s-1986.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57207095

Records of the Anaconda Company. Collection includes mining and exploration studies (local and regional), prospect reports, data and maps (including geochemical, geophysical, drilling, assay, claim, and sample location), and general files (including documents, correspondence, aerial photographs, etc.) that are the scientific product of the Anaconda Company's ninety-year program of exploration and development throughout the world. Global in scope the collection represents work in over one hundred countries with the most extensive coverage of the United States, Mexico, Australia, Chile and Canada. The United States files and maps represent forty-eight states with the most extensive materials on Nevada, Montana, Arizona, Utah, California, Idaho, New Mexico, Colorado, Washington and Wyoming. Mexico materials represent twenty-two states with the most extensive coverage of Sonora. Canada materials represent eleven provinces with the most extensive coverage of British Columbia. Collection represents seventy-six commodities with the most emphasis on copper, silver, gold, lead, zinc and uranium.

ca. 3,706 cubic feet.

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Anaconda Copper Co.

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Anaconda Company

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Anaconda Mining Company incorporated 1892; in 1895 renamed Anaconda Copper Mining Company; in 1955 reorganized as Anaconda Company; sold to Atlantic Richfield Co., 1979, and operations shut down in 1983; engaged in mining, smelting, and refining of copper, lead, zinc, and other ores, with subsidiaries in mining, lumber, coal, foundry, and other industries; headquartered in Anaconda, Mont., with major mines in Butte, Mont., area. From the description of Records, 1876-1974. (Montana Hi...

Anaconda Industries Co.

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Anaconda Copper Mining Company

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The Anaconda claim was located in 1875. In 1881 Marcus Daly discovered the copper vein that began copper mining in Butte, Montana. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company was organized on June 18, 1895 in Butte and it dominated the early industrial history of Montana. In 1903 nearly three-quarters of the wage earners in the state were either directly or indirectly working for the company. In 1917 there was a general miners' strike, and much worker/owner tension stirred up by the war, the I.W.W., and ...

Atlantic Richfield.

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