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dc.date1942?
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:55:50Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-03T09:21:35Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:55:50Z
dc.date.available2022-02-03T09:21:35Z
dc.identifierlibimagesNMHFM383
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11124/10057
dc.description#3 Mouat crusher plant.
dc.descriptionDate scanned: 2001-06-13.
dc.descriptionIdentifier: NMHFM-383.
dc.descriptionRelated photographs: NMHFM-384, NMHFM-393, NMHFM-405, NMHFM-408, NMHFM-409, NMHFM-410, NMHFM-411.
dc.descriptionUnmounted; text on verso.
dc.descriptionHeld in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum.
dc.description.abstractThe image shows the Mouat Mine crusher plant under construction. Chromium ore was discovered at the Stillwater Complex in the 1880s in what is now Stillwater County, Montana. Some mining was done, but the area was more thoroughly explored during World War I when Bill Mouat began development of the chromite mines. After the war, mining ceased with the collapse of the chromium market. At the start of World War II the US government arranged with the Anaconda Copper Mining Company to open the mines, including the Mouat Mine in the Nye mining district, on a non-profit basis. The Company built roads and mills to process the ore, and a mining camp near the Mouat Mine site. The chromium mining boom ended with the availability of cheaper chromium ores from overseas, but mining in the area continued intermittently into the 1960s.
dc.description.sponsorshipSponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
dc.publisherColorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library
dc.rightsRights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html
dc.subjectAnaconda Copper Mining Company
dc.subjectChromium ore processing plants
dc.titleMouat crusher plant
dc.typeStillImage
dc.contributor.institutionColorado Digitization Project
dc.contributor.institutionNational Mining Hall of Fame and Museum


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