Standing at 13-foot-tall, this metal statue portrays a miner with a glowing headlamp to memorializes the Sunshine Mine disaster of 1972.
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The Coeur d’Alene Mining District of Shoshone County has historically been the highest-producing silver mining district in the United States. On May 2, 1972, a massive fire broke out at the Sunshine Mine, then one of several silver mines within the district. The fire killed 91 miners and shocked the entire community. To honor those lost on that day, the community erected a metal memorial with a statue of a brave miner hoisting a rock drill upward toward the sky. Every year on the anniversary of the fire, a crowd forms at the base of the Sunshine Miners Memorial to pay tribute to the men who died in this tragic event. The mine closed in 2001.
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