Mouat Mill, fire tank
| dc.date | 1943? | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:56:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:26:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:56:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:26:32Z | |
| dc.identifier | libimagesNMHFM419 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/10135 | |
| dc.description | #40 Mouat mill showing 200,000 gal. fire tank full of water and 200,000 mill tank during erection. February 28th, 1943. | |
| dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-06-27. | |
| dc.description | Identifier: NMHFM-419. | |
| dc.description | Unmounted; text on verso. | |
| dc.description | Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The image shows a fire tank and mill tank at the Mouat Mill site. 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.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
| dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
| dc.subject | Anaconda Copper Mining Company | |
| dc.subject | Chromium ore processing plants | |
| dc.title | Mouat Mill, fire tank | |
| dc.type | StillImage | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
| dc.contributor.institution | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum |
