6 American Towns Swallowed by Their Own Mines (What's Left of Them)

Bingham Canyon, Utah. Meaderville, Montana. North Hibbing, Minnesota. Lowell, Arizona. Santa Rita, New Mexico. Picher, Oklahoma. Each one sat directly on the ore, and each was eaten by the open pit beside it, moved off the ground it stood on, or left behind as poisoned. Here is what happened to the people, and what you can still see at the rim today. In this episode: 0:00 - Intro 0:46 - The Seven-Mile Town in a Canyon 2:50 - Little Monte Carlo and the Berkeley Pit 4:53 - The Town That Moved Itself Two Miles 6:48 - One Street Left of a Town 8:45 - The Town That Kept Moving 10:43 - The Town on Top of Its Own Mines 13:08 - Outro Is there a lost town near you we should cover? Tell us in the comments. More episodes:    / @vanishedtowns   Archive footage: Copper Mining in Arizona (U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1938) - https://archive.org/details/70-165 Iron Country: Iron Ore and Minnesota's Future (Handy (Jam) Organization, 1952; Prelinger Archives) - https://archive.org/details/IronCoun1952 Photographs and documents: An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po... McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An... McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hu... Minnesota Historical Society Heritage Preservation Departmen, CC BY 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20... McGhiever, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hi... James St. John, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Be... No machine-readable author provided. Hadu~commonswiki assume, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Be... James St. John, CC BY 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Be... Kolopres, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Be... Raymond M. Coveney, …, CC BY-SA 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch... Tim Dowd, CC BY 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi... formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi... Kelly K, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch... TheDoctorWho, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi... formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi... Justjeffaz (Jeff Brunton), CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bi... StellarD, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sp... Tim Dowd, CC BY 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi... Tim Dowd, CC BY 3.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi... An Errant Knight, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bi... Marine 69-71, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bi... Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bi... United States Geological Survey, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UT... Andreas Feininger, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bi... Charles Roscoe Savage, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca... John Vachon, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... unknown author, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co... unknown author, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bu... unknown author, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa... Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kn... Earl Armstrong, Public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FE... Full sources and public-domain credits in the pinned comment. Archive material is shown for commentary, criticism and education. Research, script and editing are original to this channel; narration uses a synthetic voice. #lostplaces #americanhistory #ghosttowns