Bunker Hill Approximate 50 Oz Poured Silver Bar Odd Weight 992
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:9923135 | Precious Metal Content per Unit: 50 oz |
Bunker Hill Approximate 50 oz poured silver bar Odd weight. Copy pasted some information about the company below
The Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex ("Bunker Hill smelter"), was a large smelter located in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. When built, it was the largest smelting facility in the world. It is located in what became known as the Silver Valley of the Coeur d'Alene Basin, an area for a century that was a center of extensive silver and other metal minin...g and processing. [source: Wikipedia]
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Vintage Idaho Silver: Bunker Hill Company
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The Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex ("Bunker Hill smelter"), was a large smelter located in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. When built, it was the largest smelting facility in the world. It is located in what became known as the Silver Valley of the Coeur d'Alene Basin, an area for a century that was a center of extensive silver and other metal mining and processing. [source: Wikipedia]
In the late 1880s, a boom in mining activity in Idaho's Silver Valley followed the construction of railroad lines through what was previously considered by European Americans to be inaccessible "wilderness." The area for centuries had been occupied as part of more than 3 million acres of territory controlled by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The Bunker Hill mine, the largest of the Coeur d'Alene area mines, was founded after discovery of silver here in 1885 by Noah Kellogg. Initially, the ore was shipped out of the Silver Valley by train for processing; but within a few years, mills were built on-site to extract the metals from the ore. The process used by the first mills, known as "jigging, " was very inefficient, often recovering less than 75% of the metal from the ore. This meant that large amounts of lead and other metals remained in the tailings, which were dumped in nearby waterways. [source: Wikipedia]
For years Bunker Hill, like other mines in the region, was the site of intense struggles between regional miners' unions and mine owners/managers. The owners of the Bunker Hill mine organized with other mine owners to form the Mine Owners Protective Association in order to fight the unions. The Bunker Hill owners repeatedly refused to meet or negotiate with union representatives, leading to regular community protests. On April 29, 1899, during a union demonstration, a group of workers hijacked a Union Pacific train in Burke, Idaho and took it to Wardner. After a firefight with the Bunker Hill security guards, they dynamited the Bunker Hill and Sullivan ore concentrator, which was valued at $250, 000.
The Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex ("Bunker Hill smelter"), was a large smelter located in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. When built, it was the largest smelting facility in the world. It is located in what became known as the Silver Valley of the Coeur d'Alene Basin, an area for a century that was a center of extensive silver and other metal minin...g and processing. [source: Wikipedia]
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Vintage Idaho Silver: Bunker Hill Company
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The Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting Complex ("Bunker Hill smelter"), was a large smelter located in Kellogg, Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alene Basin. When built, it was the largest smelting facility in the world. It is located in what became known as the Silver Valley of the Coeur d'Alene Basin, an area for a century that was a center of extensive silver and other metal mining and processing. [source: Wikipedia]
In the late 1880s, a boom in mining activity in Idaho's Silver Valley followed the construction of railroad lines through what was previously considered by European Americans to be inaccessible "wilderness." The area for centuries had been occupied as part of more than 3 million acres of territory controlled by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. The Bunker Hill mine, the largest of the Coeur d'Alene area mines, was founded after discovery of silver here in 1885 by Noah Kellogg. Initially, the ore was shipped out of the Silver Valley by train for processing; but within a few years, mills were built on-site to extract the metals from the ore. The process used by the first mills, known as "jigging, " was very inefficient, often recovering less than 75% of the metal from the ore. This meant that large amounts of lead and other metals remained in the tailings, which were dumped in nearby waterways. [source: Wikipedia]
For years Bunker Hill, like other mines in the region, was the site of intense struggles between regional miners' unions and mine owners/managers. The owners of the Bunker Hill mine organized with other mine owners to form the Mine Owners Protective Association in order to fight the unions. The Bunker Hill owners repeatedly refused to meet or negotiate with union representatives, leading to regular community protests. On April 29, 1899, during a union demonstration, a group of workers hijacked a Union Pacific train in Burke, Idaho and took it to Wardner. After a firefight with the Bunker Hill security guards, they dynamited the Bunker Hill and Sullivan ore concentrator, which was valued at $250, 000.
