Copper was first mined in this area by an ancient vanished race between 5,000 and 1,200 bc. These miners left no burial grounds, dwellings, pottery, clay tablets or cave drawings. What was left behind was thousands of copper producing pits and more thousands of crude hammering stones with which the ...
Bruce Parker's mining roots run deep. After graduating with honors from Montana State University in civil engineering, Parker spent the past 20 years honing his skills in mine management, progressing from environmental manager to mine superintendent, general manager and corporate manager of operations.