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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.
References
Klein (2013)
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