Miners showing up for work at the Sunshine Mine
This file appears in: The Sunshine Mine Disaster: Idaho's Worst Mining Disaster
Image Courtesy of the United States Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Association
This file appears in: The Sunshine Mine Disaster: Idaho's Worst Mining Disaster
The Sunshine Mine Disaster: Idaho's Worst Mining Disaster
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.
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