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The Lucky Strike orebody measured approximately 800 feet by 500 feet and had a maximum thickness of 170 feet. In October, 1926, plans were made to design a mill with a 500 ton per day capacity near Lucky Strike Mine. The construction of the Buchans operation began in 1927, after ASARCO approved two million dollars to put the Buchans mine into production.12
With the completion of the mill and the ongoing building of worker homes and recreational facilities, the town of Buchans was up and growing, headed for the boom days of the 1950s and 1960s. From the romantic legend of Mattie's melting rock to millions of tons of ore later, Lucky Strike remains a symbol of prosperity of the Buchans orebodies and its people. |
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