Rescue Worker in Gear
This file appears in: The Sunshine Mine Disaster: Idaho's Worst Mining Disaster
With little oxygen left inside the mine, rescuers wore oxygen ventilators and other safety equipment while trying to rescue survivors.
Image SMF003 courtesy of the Wallace District Mining Museum.
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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