Kennecott was a remote copper mining operation with mountain mines, tramways, a mill town, and railway infrastructure. The National Park Service reports that nearly $200 million of copper was processed between 1911 and 1938.
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Kennecott was a remote copper mining operation with mountain mines, tramways, a mill town, and railway infrastructure. The National Park Service reports that nearly $200 million of copper was processed between 1911 and 1938.
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