The Copper Basin sits in the far southeast corner of Tennessee straddling ... this once-bustling hotbed of copper mining. Today, the twin towns of Copperhill, Tenn., and McCaysville, Ga., ...

The former Copper Hill mine is a legacy site where the environmental degradation from mining – including onsite smelting – began in 1845 with Tennessee Copper Company operations. The landscape ...

As a county doctor serving the two mining communities on the Tennessee-Georgia state lines ... Dr. Hicks was “considered a cornerstone in the Copperhill-McCaysville community where he served ...

As a result, the Tennessee Overhill Association is ... railways and as fill underlying much of downtown Copperhill. The calcine "mining" going on now is out of sight of the roadways.

Between 1850 and 1987, the mines in Tennessee's Copper Basin — an area ... but other materials became even more important. The plant at Copperhill continues to process sulfur.

WASHINGTON — The Copperhill Watershed Restoration Project in Ducktown, Tennessee, has won the 2020 “Grand Conceptor ... severely damaged from more than a century of logging, mining, and acid ...

Washington, DC, Dec. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Copperhill Watershed Restoration ... severely damaged from more than a century of logging, mining and acid production, into a lush, clean ...