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Ducktown Basin Museum

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Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Ducktown Basin Museum
Phone:
+1 423-496-5778

Address:
212 Burra Burra St, Ducktown, TN 37326, USA

The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra Burra Mine extracted over 15 million tons of copper ore during its 60 years of operation between 1899 and 1959. The mine's remaining structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Burra Burra Mine Historic District. The site is also home to the Ducktown Basin Museum, and the museum and mine are a Tennessee State Historic Site operated in partnership with the Tennessee Historical Commission. The Burra Burra Mine was one of a number of mining operations in the Copper Basin from 1850 to 1987 that produced substantial amounts of copper ore that contained sulfur. Trees were cut to smelt the ore and burn off the sulfur. Both the tree-harvesting and the sulfuric acid pollution left more than 32,000 acres —(13,000 hectares — of the basin eroded and virtually devoid of life, though the area has begun to recover after decades of re-greening efforts.
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