Butte, Montana
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Butte is a consolidated city-county in and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver B
Butte uptown
Marcus Daly statue by Augustus Saint Gaudens, Montana Tech university
Hotel Finlen, Butte, Montana
Butte Mining Museum town
Speculator Mine disaster
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The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history.
Butte, Montana
…Despite the dominance of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Butte was never a company town. Other major events in the city's history include the 1917 Speculator Mine disaster, the largest hard rock mining disaster in world history. Over the course of its history, Butte's mining and smelting operations generated more than $48…
Monument to the victims