RECORD
Butte Stope Books
- Title:
- Butte Stope Books
- Link to Collection:
- https://www.mbmg.mtech.edu/Information/Collections/Butte-Stope-Books/index.html
- Creator:
- Chelsea Pincock
- Creator's GitHub Account:
- https://github.com/cc3199
- Date Created:
- 2023
- Description:
- The mines in Butte, Montana, rich in base and precious metals, began to take shape in the 1870s and continued through 1982 when the underground mining was shut down. Mapping and surveying the geology, mineralogy, and mine workings of 100+ mines became the responsibility of the ACM Geology Department. The underground mine openings are generally referred to as stopes; detailed maps of the stopes were recorded from field books to a master Stope Book for each mine. This collection of books was the responsibility of the Anaconda Mining Company (founded in 1881) and is a hand-drawn representation of the tens of thousands of miles of underground workings that make up what is known worldwide as the “Richest Hill on Earth.”
- Subjects:
- Mines Montana Stopes Geology Maps
- Language:
- eng
- Location:
- Butte, MT
- Latitude:
- 46.00320747
- Longitude:
- -112.5285289
- Institution:
- Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology
- Collection Type:
- Digital Archive
- CollectionBuilder Template:
- CB-CSV