Blacklock Block Manufacturing – Of love, slag and cement: Anthony Blacklock pursues the American manufacturing dream in Butte, Montana

Paris is known as the city of love, but one Butte resident is proving that love can be found in the Mining City as well as abroad.

In September Anthony Blacklock opened Blacklock Block Manufacturing: a cement- and paver-manufacturing company in the Montana Connections Business Development Park, located on Rick Jones Way, 9 miles west of Butte.

But Blacklock didn’t always intend on opening a manufacturing company in the windswept industrial park.

In the early 2000s he was living in his native Scotland, going about his life as the owner of a fireproofing company, when he decided to posted a YouTube video of himself giving a monologue on Scottish independence.

Annie Pentilla For the Independent Record

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