Women miners confident of Florence Copper’s safety
by Mark Cowling | Florence Reminder & Blade Tribune
Two female miners came to work in Florence last year, fulfilling an ambition they’d had for some time.
“I had been following Florence Copper for a couple of years because I was really interested in the in-situ part,” Jane E. Fillmore said. “I’d always told my husband, ‘This place is so cool, if they have a job opening, I really want to go there.’” She had already accepted another job in Idaho and was awaiting her U.S. Department of Energy clearance when Florence Copper called.
“I said, ‘Husband, we have to go’ … and I’ve never looked back.”
