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Anaconda Smoke Stack

The Anaconda Smelter Stack is a brick smoke stack, once part of the smelter of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Anaconda, Montana in the United States. The stack is 585 feet 1 1⁄2 inches (178.346 m) tall, excluding its foundation.  The stack contains 2,464,652 locally manufactured perforated tile bricks, each averaging 2.7 times larger by volume than the…