More Russell Lee, still at the Anaconda Mining Co. in Deer Lodge County, Montana, September 1942:
"Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Flues atop the battery of roasting furnaces; sulphurous and arsenic gases are carried to the large smokestack."
"Anaconda Smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. The smokestack is the largest in the world: 585 feet in height with a diameter at base of seventy-five feet and at top of sixty feet. Flue gases are discharged at the rate of three to four million cubic feet per minute. The arsenic plant and flue gas cleaning apparatus are seen at the base of the stack."
[Photos: Shorpy/Photo by Russell Lee, Office of War Information]
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