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Underground Mine Maps and the Development of the Butte System at the Turn of the 20th Century (2011)

Nystrom, Eric Charles (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 37
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 97-113

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23757911

Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Theme Issue: IA in Montana
Language: English

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Mines and mining Maps; atlases Copper Mines and Mining Industrial archaeology 20th century Butte, Montana United States Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Maps of underground mines are not simply pictures of now-inaccessible industrial spaces, but are also themselves artifacts, tools used in creating and using a visual culture of mining engineering during the period of mining's industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Butte, Montana was the site of major mine mapping innovations. This article describes how Anaconda Copper Mining Company engineers, including David W. Brunton and Horace V. Winchell, reconceptualized the form and content of traditional underground maps to highlight geological information. This new mapping system helped increase the importance of geological information to the company, which used it to find new ore and increase the predictability of underground production. Ultimately, the new system of mapping reframed the relationship between geology and mining engineering at Anaconda and showed the value of geological mapping to industrial mining enterprises. [2015 Vogel Prize winner]

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Article Jon Axline (2011) "A Wonderful Piece of Engineering": The Point of Rocks Segment of the Mullan Road and the Milwaukee Road Railroad in Mineral Country, Montana. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 29-42). unapi

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