From 1983: Montana's collapsed copper mining industry

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  • Опубликовано: 29 июл 2021
  • In western Montana, where copper was once king, shuttered mines in the 1980s left the people of Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls groping toward the future. Correspondent Liz Trotta reported on the economic hardships facing thousands of out-of-work miners in this "Sunday Morning" story originally broadcast September 4, 1983.

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  • @VallesView
    @VallesView 2 года назад +49

    I know reporting is faster and more concise now but seeing stories like this one that let the subject breathe is refreshing. No music attempting to drive the viewer's emotion. Just the story and the people who live(d) it.

  • @MarbleWhornets
    @MarbleWhornets 2 года назад +19

    More of these old stories please!

  • @TheTonialadd
    @TheTonialadd 2 года назад +14

    Wow! I lived in Great Falls in 1983. This was the year my daughter was born. Living there during that time was so difficult, I joined the army in 1984 and moved my family to Texas. Now my daughter is back in Montana and struggling to keep her apartment. There’s jobs but no place to live.

  • @johnnycashh7148
    @johnnycashh7148 2 года назад +4

    At 13...we never got the impression of how really rough we had it as a community. I know everyone rallied around each other and used the barter system to get the car fixed for a family dinner. Been away for 30 yrs serving the country but my family is still chipping away!! Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸🍻

  • @777jones
    @777jones 18 дней назад

    I drove by the Anaconda chimney this year and was fascinated. I stopped and looked around Anaconda. I also explored interesting Butte Montana.

  • @christopherquinn3061
    @christopherquinn3061 2 года назад +3

    Montana is on my bucket list, its so Beautiful

  • @dudeguy4047
    @dudeguy4047 Год назад +3

    Wow, the Berkeley Pit before it filled up with highly toxic water and turned into America's most famous migratory bird death-trap. She was pointing out the smelter smokestack as a symbol; if only she had known about the Superfund site destined for Butte's future legacy

  • @gerrynightingale9045
    @gerrynightingale9045 2 года назад +5

    *These men are either long-dead or 'one foot in the grave and the other on a banana-peel'*
    *If these men knew that Unions that were once crocodiles are now 'toothless worms' or extinct altogether they would surely rise from
    from their graves and demand to know 'What happened?'*
    *And what could we tell them?*
    *"We don't know 'what happened' but we don't like it either!"*
    ( *When I was young, my grandfather could've walked me into the 'Rouge Plant' and said "This is my grandkid...put him on the line and see if he works-out" and I'd have a Union card in my wallet in a week and a good job for the next forty-years or so* )
    *NOW THERE IS NOTHING!*

  • @TheWarrrenator
    @TheWarrrenator 2 года назад +2

    News + time = history. I remember growing up in WV and waking up on Sunday mornings before church and my mom would watch this show. She probably saw this very article. Mom was a school teacher and belonged to the teachers’ union. WV is an extraction economy much like Butte and is following its similar fate.

    • @willo.1931
      @willo.1931 2 года назад

      Do you mean walkerville?

  • @debbiecooper1677
    @debbiecooper1677 2 года назад +4

    it was the same thing in Kentucky. with the coal mines.

  • @PACstove
    @PACstove 2 года назад +4

    Its montana so i cant tell if this was shot in 2021 or 1981.

    • @nolansmith412
      @nolansmith412 2 года назад +3

      It's all original footage from the 80's

    • @dudeguy4047
      @dudeguy4047 Год назад +3

      Check the water level in the Berkeley Pit

    • @Diablo-nf1kn
      @Diablo-nf1kn Год назад +2

      He was using sarcasm

    • @PACstove
      @PACstove Год назад +2

      @@Diablo-nf1kn Yes. And i can cuz i was from there.

  • @Mtoutdoorsman
    @Mtoutdoorsman Год назад +5

    M&M bar and grill burned down last year

  • @Parkhurst12-79
    @Parkhurst12-79 6 месяцев назад +1

    Home of Evel Knievel and Robert J. O'Neill

  • @CapnCody1622
    @CapnCody1622 Год назад +6

    11:50 It’s absolutely insane that the minimum wage has barely doubled since 1983.

  • @SandyWolf-
    @SandyWolf- 2 года назад

    The future for any natural resources

  • @dondoyle8474
    @dondoyle8474 2 года назад +3

    I live in Kern Co California the heart of the oil Patch, could this be our fate 🤔

  • @SSIKorea
    @SSIKorea 2 года назад

    Recently, ESG (environment/society/governance) has become a hot topic in management, but in preparation for this, even SMEs and non-profit organizations, except for large companies and listed companies, still have what ESG is? You don't seem to know what to prepare and run. So, the May webinar was held under the theme of 'ESG, SSI and Digital Trust'.
    The Government of British Columbia, Canada, demonstrates a demo along with an explanation of how to manage and trust the data generated by the self-sovereign identity technology to reduce GHGs generated during various operational activities in copper mines. Please refer to the video below................
    "No business is allowed on a dead planet." This message from environmental activist David Brower is, in a way, the best way to explain the origins of ESG. This is because if the market collapses due to the climate crisis and social problems, the company loses the ground to continue doing business. - One-book ESG class (Jihyun Shin, JoongAng Books) -
    ruclips.net/video/zDPrVZ3k104/видео.html

  • @frederickmoller
    @frederickmoller 2 года назад +2

    I was a unionized underground miner in Timmins Canada for 29 years, but switched to nonunionized (mining contracting) underground mining for the remaining 14 years till I retired, and I made way, way better money than I ever did for a unionized mine!!!

    • @TheBandit7613
      @TheBandit7613 2 года назад +4

      And I'm a union heavy equipment operator in Vegas.
      120K a year with a real pension.

  • @ag-bk5wf
    @ag-bk5wf 2 года назад +2

    Los Angeles at a taco stand geez haha..it was the aerospace industry

    • @RobJoswiak
      @RobJoswiak 2 года назад +1

      Among other things.

  • @christinawebb6663
    @christinawebb6663 7 месяцев назад

    My dad was laid off in 1976 so we moved.

  • @YakSquad
    @YakSquad 6 месяцев назад +3

    Lol I moved from shi@ hole Houston to move to butte. The union guy is right go no union get ran o er by your gov and company. Texas is that state so I left. I am union makeing a great wage and butte is growing fast. The Mine is open and hiring all the time. God bless butte montana the last normal place on earth.

  • @JasonEvans-ls7uf
    @JasonEvans-ls7uf 2 месяца назад

    I live here and its baddest town in America.....❤🎉😂😊

  • @justinnampui4757
    @justinnampui4757 2 года назад +2

    butte is a good place to drink

  • @gus473
    @gus473 2 года назад

    Is that what copper mining will look like in the 🛶 Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota.....? 🤔

    • @kinziek3190
      @kinziek3190 2 года назад +1

      No, I don't believe so. What you are looking at in the video is over 100 years of mining history. Before environmental impact studies, safety laws, permits, etc.

  • @RobJoswiak
    @RobJoswiak 2 года назад +1

    Why delete my comments?!

  • @TheTonialadd
    @TheTonialadd 2 года назад

    Little did the man (talking about the mine closing) know at the time how wrong he was…

  • @battles423
    @battles423 2 года назад +2

    I wonder if any black people lived there around this time. Didn’t see any.
    But it is Montana so it’s understandable.

    • @paulmc3457
      @paulmc3457 2 года назад

      Cmon, I've met many great black folks there, idiot. 😴 😒

    • @taylor7772
      @taylor7772 Год назад +2

      Wow, make everything about race? 😐😐

    • @caseymurphy244
      @caseymurphy244 Год назад +1

      Lol. Yeah there was . And many other nationalities. My mother's father worked there for quite a few years. The "Red light " District had every color of woman imaginable For Your Entertainment..

    • @starloszelson4541
      @starloszelson4541 Год назад +1

      I wonder if black women lived there ​@@caseymurphy244

    • @jaydaawg.8191
      @jaydaawg.8191 11 месяцев назад

      I was watching a documentary about a tribe in Africa and I didn't see any whites. How racist of them.

  • @bobedwards7455
    @bobedwards7455 2 года назад +1

    GOOD RIDDANCE

  • @peternagy-im4be
    @peternagy-im4be 9 месяцев назад +1

    Jerkwater USA

    • @Parkhurst12-79
      @Parkhurst12-79 6 месяцев назад +1

      Produced over 48 billion in 100 years.
      Home of Evel Knievel and Robert O'Neill

    • @peternagy-im4be
      @peternagy-im4be 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Parkhurst12-79 love the sense of humour!!!

  • @emmesummerlin3668
    @emmesummerlin3668 2 года назад

    One of the worst shows on television.

    • @hnc098
      @hnc098 2 года назад +2

      It’s a great show. You are confused, old lady.