Sorting / Displacement diagram of the displaced landscape at the Washoe Mine located at Copper and Arizona Streets. The diagram shows the 400 level workings of the Washoe Mine overlaid on the Weed map of Butte. Waste rock from the mines was piled immediately downhill from the mine shaft until the EPA clean-up of the Butte Hill that began in 1987.
The BPSOU requires that all waste rock be graded to a maximum of 1:3 slope and capped with a minimum of 18 inches of soil and grasses. This waste-left-in-place cap now defines the landscape of the Butte Hill.
Sources: Stope Books of underground workings, Butte Silver-Bow Archives Historic Plat of the City of Butte - 1876, Butte Silver-Bow Archives USGS map from 1897 Butte Special Map Folio #38 (the ‘Weed’ map) Sanborn Insurance Maps of Butte Personal Photographs
Anaconda Mining Company Mine Shaft records Weed, Walter Harvey. Geology and ore deposits of the Butte district, Montana. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912.
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These maps aim to create a new discourse around the possible futures of this place; futures that are possible in part to a new understanding of this ‘given’ landscape. The maps become instruments that both document and project simultaneously. They reveal a landscape that is no longer an unknown byproduct of industrialised sorting, but one that is a newly understood topography of possible occupation and intervention. c
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