Bunker Hill Mine Smelter

ID: 5435 ~ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg,_Idaho#/media/File:Bunker_Hill_smelter_operating_in_winter_snow,_1970s.jpg ~ Creator: Environmental Protection Agency ~ Date: 1970s
This file appears in: Kellogg: Center of Silver Valley
Public Domain

The waste from the mining operations contaminated the soil in a 21-mile area through the silver valley. After the Bunkerhill MIne closed in the 1980s the area was deemed a Superfund site.

This file appears in: Kellogg: Center of Silver Valley

By Jordan Parker
Noah Kellogg was a gold prospector and carpenter living a town a few miles from the current day Kellogg Idaho. In the 1880s Kellogg was having a string of bad luck and needed to make money fast. Two business men gave Kellogg money to buy tools and a…