Jack Smith and Clarence Warner were two prospectors who in 1900 were prospecting north east of Valdez in Alaska when they stumbled upon green patch on a hillside. At first from a distance they thought it was grass for their horses but getting closer they realized it was something more. That something more turned out to be a mountain of copper ore.
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