A rusted industrial mine headframe towers against a stormy grey sky in Butte, Montana. Bold orange lettering reads “Mile High” on the weathered corrugated metal structure, with partially visible “Mile Deep” text along the base.

A vast open-pit copper mine reveals dramatic horizontal bands of rust red, ochre, grey, and tan earth carved into terraced layers. A forested mountain ridge rises in the background beneath an overcast sky.

A mine headframe and a collapsed wooden outbuilding seen through a chain-link security fence in Butte, Montana. A semi truck passes on a dirt road below, with mountain ranges stretching across the horizon behind

A dramatic low-angle view looking up at an abandoned mine headframe in Butte, Montana. The skeletal black steel lattice tower rises against a brooding storm sky, with peeling white corrugated metal buildings below bearing faded orange “Mile High” signage.

Butte, Montana. Once the richest hill on earth. Thousands of men descended a mile into the ground every day so that America could have its copper. Many never came back up.
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