Early Garfield Smelter 1905

Construction started on the Garfield smelter in August 1905. The early Garfield smelter would be the largest copper smelter in the world, size and magnitude and remain so for a long time (as of 2014 the Garfield smelter was the largest and most efficient copper smelter in the world). The startup construction date 1905 is interesting because both Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated copper would not start open cut mining at Bingham until 1906, (they would be supplying the ore for the smelter). So, the investors building the Garfield smelter must have had a good idea that the open cut mining was going to be successful, it was the first time this method of mining was used with copper.

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