A couple more from Russell Lee, September 1942, at Deer Lodge County, Montana.

image from www.shorpy.com
"Anaconda smelter, Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Individual ore cars are pushed to the ore dump by an electric locomotive."

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"Anaconda smelter, Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars containing 50 tons of copper ore are dumped by an unloading mechanism into a 200-ton hopper."
[Photos: Shorpy/Russell Lee for the Office of War Information]

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