Copper Globe Mine, Smelter Cabin, Approximately 3 miles south of I-70 and 17 miles southeast of Moore, Moore

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Approximately three miles south of Interstate 70 and 17 miles southeast of Moore, Utah, Emery County and approximately 630 feet east of Miner's Cabin. The Smelter cabin is located at latitude: longitude The coordinate represents the northern corner of the structure. This coordinate was taken from Google Earth. Dates of construction: Ca. Builder: Jesse Fugate and his son Conn Fugate. Original occupant and Jesse Fugate and his son Conn were the original occupants and used it to use: smelt copper ore onsite. Present owner: Bureau of Land Management

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The smelter cabin is part of the Copper Globe Mine, an early twentieth-century copper mine that exists in an area better known for Cold War-era uranium mining. Description: A small brick smelter located at the rear of a 9 X 15 wood cabin, which faces east-southeast. The cabin is partially to completely underground with only the front exposed. The roof is made of wood planks. The smelting process involved using local wood to heat the ore to above 250 degrees Celsius driving off carbon dioxide and water leaving copper oxide. Then a reducing agent, likely carbon monoxide from the incomplete combustion of the wood, added to the air starved furnace. The reducing action drove off the remaining oxygen leaving elemental copper.

The smelter and cabin were constructed, by Jesse Fugate and his son Conn Fugate, on site to save money hauling the low-grade ore to a smelting facility.