[silent] Early images of Montana mining and smelter/foundry practices include: a train pulling mining cars across a hillside; workers getting off a passenger train; workers standing in line; workers emptying mined materials from Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway cars; mined materials moving down a chute into a processing area; many rows of machines for processing mined materials; using water to separate materials; a crane moving large rings; molten metal pouring into a vat; machinery moving metal sheets; and men finishing metal sheets with intricate machinery. Circa 1924. (collection MOV 0140)

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