The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: Butte (original) (raw)
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Butte, Montana (112.497W 45.955N), was an important mining center in 1941, with deposits of copper,manganese (62,000 tons per year),zinc, lead, silver, and gold. The manganese deposits constituted the largest low-grade manganese ore body in the world, and while this was not economical to exploit in peacetime, it eventually supplied 35% of wartime requirements.
Gold was first found here at Big Butte, a prominent bare peak just outside the town, in 1864. The city was incorporated in 1879.
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References
Klein (2013)
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