Asarco Stack - Ruston, WA Fall of 1991??

This was pretty cool. Asarco was a copper smelting plant from the early 1900's to the 1980's. The site is now one of the top 10 superfund sites in the United States. This particular Fall afternoon they blew up the stack. If you've never seen demolition like this before, it's amazing . . . except for the power lines in the foreground, I'm pretty pleased with these photos.

I'm thinking of making an animated GIF out of these . . . that could be kinda cool . . .

As it had stood for decades

No, I wasn't wiggling the camera, this was the first blast. The whole stack vibrates

The bands that you see popping away from the stack had to be blown off first before they could bring the stack down

The bands are clear and falling

Notice the dust at the top of the picture, the stack is starting to fall

Notice the break forming in the middle of the stack

Almost done now

Just a stack of dust now . . .

GONE!!