Sunshine Mine Memorial

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This file appears in: The Sunshine Mine Disaster
Sunshine Mine Memorial

Memorial sculpted by Ken Lonn.

Image Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

This file appears in: The Sunshine Mine Disaster

By Cory Carpenter
Mining has always been hard, dirty, and above all dangerous work. This monument memorializes one of the worst tragedies ever to strike the Silver Valley, the Sunshine Mine Disaster of 1972. Of all the mines in the Silver Valley the Sunshine…