Anaconda Copper Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:44 1 History of Anaconda Copper
00:01:54 1.1 Beginnings
00:04:06 1.2 Rothschilds
00:04:48 1.3 Rockefellers
00:06:18 2 Amalgamated competes in copper
00:09:03 2.1 The golden twenties
00:10:33 2.2 Great speculation
00:12:39 2.3 Great Depression
00:14:06 2.4 Beginning of WWII
00:14:51 2.5 1950s
00:16:18 2.6 1970s
00:18:51 2.7 Superfund site
00:20:07 3 Aluminum operations in Columbia Falls
00:21:32 4 Anaconda Copper in literature and film
00:22:42 5 Semiotics
00:22:51 5.1 "Copper Collar"
00:30:01 6 See also
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The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, part of the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, was an American mining company. It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.Founded in 1881 when Marcus Daly bought a silver mine, the company expanded rapidly based on the discovery of huge copper deposits. Daly built a smelter in Anaconda to process copper mined in Butte. Daly sold his assets in 1899 to H H Rogers and William Rockefeller.
By 1910, Amalgamated had expanded its operations and bought the assets of two other Montana copper companies. In 1922, Anaconda bought mining operations in Mexico and Chile; the latter was the largest mine in the world and yielded two-thirds of the company's profits. The company added aluminum reduction to its portfolio in 1955.
In 1960 its operations still had 37,000 employees in North America and Chile. It was purchased by Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) on January 12, 1977. Anaconda halted production in 1980, and mining ceased completely in 1982 when the deep pumps keeping the mine drained were shut off, allowing the mine to fill. It currently exists only as a massive environmental liability for Marathon Petroleum, the current owner of ARCO.