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Mystery photo number seven

July 9, 2012 by Dave Knadler

I used to tell my kids a dark wizard lived here.

This somewhat sinister structure was built by a company that was named for a mine that was named for a snake. Given the company’s history, the moniker is apt.

The structure sits at the head of the largest toxic-waste site in the nation — and overlooks a golf course named for the infrastructure that produced all the pollution.

As a side note, it’s big enough to enclose a better-known tall monument in the District of Columbia.

For one point, identify the structure. For three points, give the prior name of the company that erected it.

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Comments

  1. Paula says

    July 9, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Is the Berkeley Pit? If so, it was owned by Anaconda Copper, and later Atlantic Ritchfield.

  2. Deb says

    July 9, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    Anaconda smelter stack built by the Alphons Custodis Chimney Construction Co….she said hopefully.

    • Dave Knadler says

      July 12, 2012 at 5:44 pm

      Deb gets one point for a total of eleven points.

      I was looking for the name of the mining company, as opposed to the contractor that built the thing. I will have to be more specific in the future.

  3. Joan says

    July 9, 2012 at 5:06 pm

    The company would have to be the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, originally Amalgamated Copper Mining Company in Butte, Montana. Is that thing a smelter?

    • Dave Knadler says

      July 12, 2012 at 5:42 pm

      Joan gets three points, for a total (I think) of three points.

  4. Joan says

    July 9, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    The golf course would probably be the Old Works Golf Course, so would you call that structure the “old works?”

    • Dave Knadler says

      July 12, 2012 at 5:47 pm

      It’s the Anaconda smelter stack, more commonly known as simply “The Stack.” Correct, the golf course is called “Old Works,” referring to the mining infrastructure that produced so much copper. And so much toxic waste.

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