American Heritage Center

The Anaconda Geological Documents Collection is the scientific product of the Anaconda Company’s 90 year program of exploration and development work throughout the United States and in 110 foreign countries. It has been described as the largest and most significant body of economic geological data in the world. Consisting of more than 54 tons of material and 1.8 million documents, the Anaconda Collection contains a wealth of material useful in exploration, development and environmental studies, including:

 

• Mining and exploration studies: 18,000 local and regional studies
• Prospect reports: 5,500 reports on specific mining prospects
• Data: 10,000 documents with geological, geochemical, geophysical, drilling, assay, & other data
• Maps: 56,450 geologic, geochemical, geophysical, claim and sample-location maps
• General files: Thousands of related documents, correspondence files, and aerial photographs, etc. that support and add context to the technical papers.