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Anaconda, Montana still moving forward

In the morning of Sept. 29, 1980, 25-year-old Jim Davison went to work at the downtown Anaconda offices of Atlantic Richfield Corp.

It had been Davison’s job to figure out how much it would cost to tear out the smelter, and it had been other people’s jobs to find out what it would cost to clean up what would be left behind.

But even while he toiled at what would later become a reality, and one of the darkest days in Anaconda history, he remained optimistic. After all, other people were trying to figure out how much it would cost to improve the smelter and once again make it competitive with similar facilities around the world.

"That morning we were taking bets on what the announcement would be," said Davison, now executive director of the Anaconda Local Development Corp. "I had my money on them putting $200 million into the smelter and making the improvements."

That, of course, was not the winning wager.

By Tim Trainor of The Montana Standard

Full Story: http://www.mtstandard.com/news/local/article_042efb54-c92d-11df-9d1a-001cc4c002e0.html

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