Talk:Anaconda Smelter Stack/Archive 1

Archive 1

Proposing a major revision

I have a lot of good reference information on the stack at Anaconda, and I'm considering a major revision as follows: Style needs some serious work. I have a lot of technical data to add on the bricks, wall thicknesss, etc. The stack replaced an earlier 300-footer. The last bit in the article about the "various poisions and heavy metals" is predudicial. This stack has a long and interesting history. I plan to take a crack at this revision (my first) over the coming weekend (January 6 and 7). BSMet94 16:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Please do! Make sure you include properly sourced information. Once the article gets larger it will get more attention. It's a shame to see great information removed because some future editor can't verify it. SchmuckyTheCat 16:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I uploaded a picture of the stack today.--Banjodog 03:35, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Stained glass

Regarding that photo of the stained glass window from St. Peter's church in Anaconda: that window was put in in the 70s (I think) and was done by the artist, Sr. Joeann Daley O.P., when they replaced all the windows in St. Pete's. BSMet94 16:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I uploaded that. Feel free to add any relevant information to the image page. SchmuckyTheCat 16:46, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. I'll find out the date they were done, and add the artist's name to the image page.BSMet94 14:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Update

Added some information and one reference. I will get the reference on tallest masonry structure later (it's in a box). I got rid of the pollution text. Show me an aerial photograph from the 1980s and we can put it back in. I will try to come up with some good information on the nature of the gases and fume that the stack handled. The stack was equipped with electrostatic precipitators to recover flue dust that hadn't settled in the main flue. I may add details of the main flue here also, until someone (perhaps me) gets ambitious and writes the article on the Anaconda Smelter.BSMet94 14:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Tallest brick stack?

The chimney flue in Port Pirie, South Australia (for the lead smelter there) is 205m tall (so it's taller than the Anaconda smelter stack) and I remember man who used to work there (during it's construction in the 1970s) saying that it was built entirely out of bricks. But I'll have to find some hard evidence for that. The base of the stack is housed inside a shed, so I don't know if that makes it free standing or not.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pez17 (talk • contribs) 01:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

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Fair use image

I added a view of the stack without any obstructions as the infobox image. All images accessible on the web (most at the Google map or Bing map views of the Anaconda Smoke Stack State Park) have the base or a portion of it obstructed by hills. This image was copied from its National Register of Historic Places entry. It may be in the public domain for that reason. However, that document states in Copyright:

Permission must be secured from the individual copyright owners to reproduce any copyrighted materials contained within this website. Digital assets without any copyright restrictions are public domain.

and the photographer is Maggie Smith of Anaconda MT who may not have been employed by any federal agency, only contracted by a US government agency to obtain the photos for that document. Although this, in and of itself, may make it a photo created by the US government, I am erring on the side of caution by classifying it historical fair use rather than designating it {{PD-USGov}} or one of its aliases. — Joe Kress (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Archive note - The image was deleted following this discussion: Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2017 February 6#File:Anaconda NRHP photo1.png. Keri (talk) 13:17, 15 February 2017 (UTC)