The Black Butte Mine in Cottage Grove, OR

Рет қаралды 16,688

Күн бұрын

Пікірлер: 10

@gordonpeet1194 3 жыл бұрын

My mother's family used to live on Black Butte Road in the 1920's and my uncle, Nathen Edwards, wrote this memory in January 2013: "Black Butte is a mountain at the end of the road. At that time and until sometime after the depression hit, it was a mercury mine. While visiting there one time they had a shortage of flasks and mercury was sitting around in wash tubs. I couldn’t reach bottom, only get my arm in about half-way to the elbow. A cast iron scale weight floated half in/out." My mother talked of the miners letting them play with the quicksilver.

@maxwellwoodhouse2908 2 жыл бұрын

This is very interesting, it’s cool to know Oregon mercury was used extensively in both world wars, mercury fulminate or whatever, in blasting caps. I wonder if bullets use it in primers as well? Washington and I believe Oregon uranium was refined into plutonium that was used in the bombing of Japan. And now , Oregon has the most standing timber in the United States, such a rich place. Hopefully it will be preserved, and healed from all the damage we’ve done to it. The Willamette valley is a land flowing with milk , honey , weed and delicious cheeses.

@tracykeen2726 Жыл бұрын

The Willamette Valley is my homeland and used to have such a beautiful abundance of large old growth trees until Labor Day 2020 when we had extremely bad wildfire that our horrible Governor at the time refused to let firefighters fight

@psychosneighbor1509 4 ай бұрын

Used to eat lots of catfish from CGR as a kid in the early 80's. I'm still here. Anyway, I heard much later on that there were high levels of mercury in the lake and just learned today where it came from. Interesting. Thanks.

@OregonStateSuperfund 10 жыл бұрын

We have just added closed captions to this video.