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The Sunshine Mine of Kellogg, Idaho was the site of a mining accident, which cost the lives of 91 miners.

[edit] Timeline of events

• May 2, 1972
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[edit] References

Olsen, Gregg. The Deep Dark: Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005.

[edit] External Links and Sources

• Boise State University, Albertsons Library
  • Comprehensive list of resources including books, government documents, websites and search tips
• Mining Disaster: An Exhibition. 1972 Sunshine Mining Company Mining Disaster Kellogg, Idaho
  • Published by U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration. Includes photographs of the Sunshine Mine site as the events of that day are retold.
• Outdoor Idaho's Silver Valley Rising Idaho Public Television
  • Includes interviews and text
• Sunshine Mine Fire: A view from the inside. United States Mine Rescue Association

• Sunshine Mine Memorial (photos & information):
  • U.S. Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration
  • VisitIdaho.org
  • Western Mining History: Reliving the Industrial Revolution of the West

• The Sunshine Mine accident and its aftermath, from the United States Mine Rescue Association (USMRA) website
• The Sunshine Mine Fire Disaster: A View From The Inside, another description, also from the USMRA website
• The Sunshine Mine Disaster, a home page by the author of the 1995 book, via a Florida Gulf Coast University website
• Survivors discuss Sunshine Mine fire, a March 2005 interview of the author of the 2005 book, from the Bellingham Herald website
• Underground In The Sunshine, a reprint on an ad-supported personal website of a short story about working in the Sunshine Mine in 1946, first published in the International California Mining Journal in October 1998
• Sterling Mining Company official website
• The Deep Dark author Gregg Olsen's personal website

• About Kellogg, ID
  • Historic Silver Valley Chamber of Commerce
  • Kellogg Redefined: A Mining Town Reinvents Itself by Prof. Harley Johansen, University of Idaho Spring 2006
  • Western Mining History.com Kellogg, Idaho
  • Coeur d'Alene Mining District, about Kellogg and the Silver Valley, from the Idaho Public Television website
  • Kellogg's history and a list of events there, from a personal website
  • Tarnished Luster, a reprint on the author's website of an article on Kellogg and the Silver Valley published in the Smithsonian in October 2001
  • Shoshone News Press, the local newspaper

• Sunshine mine is at coordinates 47°30′55″N 116°03′57″W / 47.515349, -116.065729 (Sunshine mine)Coordinates: 47°30′55″N 116°03′57″W / 47.515349, -116.065729 (Sunshine mine)