Anselmo Mine

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The Anselmo Mine operated from 1887 to 1959, and is 4,301 feet deep. The mineyard is the most intact of any in Butte, and includes the main hoist engine room, an auxiliary (chippy) hoist building (with a lamp room in the lower level), carpenter shop, timekeeper's offices, hose house, the dry, and a warehouse in addition to the headframe with its tipple and two idler towers. The compressed air tank also survives. Inside, tools and other artifacts are found in place, just as they were when the mine was operating.

The Anselmo and its mineyard are owned by Butte-Silver Bow, which is working toward making the mine part of a Regional Heritage Park.

The present Anselmo headframe came from the Black Rock Mine, and was moved to the Anselmo in 1936. The Anselmo yard also held the central timber yard that supplied lumber for underground timbers to many mines.

A lengthy strike that shut down most of Butte's mines in 1959 spelled the end of the Anselmo, which did not reopen after that strike.

References

• A Self-Guided Tour of the Mines of Butte: pamphlet compiled by Butte Historical Society, not dated.
• Gibson, R.I., 2008, Tourist Guide to the Butte-Anaconda Copperway.