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Mystery photo number seven

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

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

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

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

    • 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.