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    Kennecott, also known as Kennicott and Kennecott Mines, is an abandoned mining camp in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska that was...
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  • Kennicott (redirect from Kennecott)
    Kennicott or Kennecott may refer to: Kennecott, Alaska, an abandoned mining camp, United States Benjamin Kennicott (1718-1783), English churchman and...
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    naturalist who explored in Alaska in the mid-1800s. Partly because alcoholic beverages and prostitution were forbidden in Kennecott, McCarthy grew as an area...
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    approached each other in 1906. The Kennecott Copper Corporation, established to operate mines in Kennecott, Alaska, purchased a 25 percent financial interest...
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    Copper River and Northwestern Railway (category 1900s establishments in Alaska)
    the Kennecott Corporation (now part of the Alaska Syndicate) between 1908 and 1911 to take copper ore from Kennecott, Alaska to Cordova, Alaska, a distance...
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    Kennicott Glacier (category Glaciers of Alaska)
    National Park near the small town of McCarthy, Alaska and the historic ghost town of Kennecott, Alaska. It was named in 1899 by geologist Oscar Rohn of...
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    Alaska (/əˈlæskə/ ə-LASS-kə) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is...
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    Kennecott Utah Copper LLC (KUC), a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in...
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    was founded as a result of the discovery of high-grade copper ore at Kennecott, north of Cordova. A group of surveyors from Valdez laid out a town site...
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  • development of the ores in Kennecott falls in the successions of two organizations: The Alaska Syndicate and the Kennecott Copper Corporation. The two...
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    abandoned copper mines at Kennecott. The road does not actually lead all the way to Kennecott; visitors must cross the Kennecott River by a footbridge built...
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    mine, Bonanza mine, Mother Lode mine, and Green Butte mine) were at Kennecott, Alaska, four miles north of McCarthy. The copper is present as chalcocite...
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    Valdez–Cordova Census Area was a census area located in the state of Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,636. It was part...
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    Bonanza Mine Alaska portal Mountains portal List of mountain peaks of Alaska Geography of Alaska Kennecott, Alaska "Bonanza Peak, Alaska". Peakbagger...
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    Garnet, Montana Idaho City, Idaho Jerome, Arizona Julian, California Kennecott, Alaska Laramie, Wyoming Lincoln, New Mexico Oatman, Arizona Old Town San...
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    Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kennecott Mines, Kennecott, Alaska Montpelier, Orange, Virginia Penn School, Frogmore, South...
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    glossary The "first known chairlift" depends on definition: Miners in Kennecott, Alaska used a mining tram to ski in the 1920s. There were other non-ski "chairlifts"...
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    Simon Guggenheim. Their influence spread, and they came to control the Kennecott copper mine, steamship and railroad companies, and salmon packing. The...
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  • district, British Columbia. Bateman worked on mining related work in Alaska at the Kennecott Mines. In 1915 he became an instructor at Yale University teaching...
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    abandoned copper mining camp of Kennecott, Alaska in the Wrangell Mountains and coal mining at Nabesna and Healy, Alaska. Protected areas include Lake Clark...
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    2016. Elizabeth A. Tower (1990). Ghosts of Kennecott, The Story of Stephen Birch. p. 42. University of Alaska Anchorage Consortium Library, Archives and...
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  • 1915, Kennecott Copper Company, also owned by Morgan & Co. and the M. Guggenheim Sons, acquired the Alaska Syndicate's interests in the Alaska Steamship...
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    widespread extraction of the mineral resources, in particular from the Kennecott Mine, discovered in 1898. The mine was abandoned in 1938 and is now a...
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    for viewing and climbing. List of mountain peaks of Alaska Geography of Alaska Kennecott, Alaska "Williams Peak". Geographic Names Information System...
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    virtual ghost town. Otto Adrian Nelson, a surveying engineer for the Kennecott Mines, eventually bought up much of the town. He built a unique hydroelectric...
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    Stephen Birch (1873–1950) was a president of the Kennecott Copper Company. Birch was born in New York City on March 24, 1873. He was the second son of...
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    Donoho Peak (category Mountains of Alaska)
    U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, 6 mi (10 km) north-northwest of Kennecott, and 9 mi (14 km)...
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    Fireweed Mountain (category Mountains of Alaska)
    from Kennecott Alaska portal Mountains portal List of mountain peaks of Alaska Geography of Alaska Kennecott, Alaska "Fireweed Mountain, Alaska". Peakbagger...
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  • Michael James Heney (category People from Cordova, Alaska)
    via the Alaska Syndicate, sought access to the copper ore deposits at Kennecott, Alaska. When an alternate route starting at the Katalla, Alaska, port was...
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    the permanently ice-covered terrain in Alaska. At the center of the park and preserve, the boomtown of Kennecott exploited one of the world's richest deposits...
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