Sean Gohman (Author)
Over a century of mining native copper in Michigan's Copper Country has produced several million tons of workable metal and an even greater amount of waste. The remaining rock, tailings, and slag each represent a separate step in the process of hard rock mining, providing tangible links to industrial landscape narratives at both regional and site-specific scales. Recently, the Keweenaw National Historical Park's Advisory Commission funded a survey of over 350 separate sites of copper mine waste, ranging from multi-acre tailings deposits to slag heaps occupying less than 50 sq. ft. This work resulted in the development of a classification and scoring rubric designed to identify waste sites of greatest historical significance, authenticity, and integrity. These findings offer insight into understanding and appreciating the residues of extractive practice that in this case, due to the benign nature of the unalloyed copper mined there, pose a lesser threat to the environment compared with most hard rock mining activities. [2016 Vogel Prize winner]
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