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There were two related incidents between miners and mine owners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of North Idaho: the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892, and the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899. This article is a brief overview of both events.
Idaho Cobalt Operations (ICO) is a cobalt mine located in Lemhi County, Idaho in the United States near the town of Salmon. [1] The mine has reserves amounting to 3.8 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% cobalt. [2] The mine will also produce copper and gold. [3] The project is located directly adjacent to the inactive Blackbird mine.
The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, labor riot of 1899 was the second of two major labor-management confrontations in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of northern Idaho in the 1890s. . Like the first incident seven years earlier, the 1899 confrontation was an attempt by union miners, led by the Western Federation of Miners to unionize non-union mines, and have them pay the higher union wage sca
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Shoshone County, Idaho area miners organized into several local unions during the 1880s. Mine owners responded by forming a Mine Owners' Association. [1] In 1891, the Coeur d'Alene district shipped ore containing US$4.9 million (~$150 million in 2023) in lead, silver, and gold.
It was one of the worst mining disasters in American history, and the worst disaster in Idaho history. [21] Today, a monument to the lost miners stands beside I-90 near the mine. After the Sunshine Mine reopened and resumed full production, it regained its position as the number one silver producer in the Nation.
Blackbird mine was a large cobalt mine in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States.. Mining for gold started in 1893, and the mine produced copper and cobalt between 1902 and 1968. [1]