“The majority of CCE takes a look at what remains of the vast industrial empire that once called the Copper Country home, remembering the past through the ghostly images of those ruins that still haunt the landscape today. But without knowing what purpose ruins once served were or the reasoning for their existence CCE is nothing more then a daily journal of pretty pictures. Our Copper Country Anatomy series attempts to remedy that situation, by presenting an in-depth look at the technology and infrastructure that was an integral part of the peninsula’s copper empire. These posts explain the how and the why, and present a window into the past that simple pretty pictures of ruins cannot do on their own. “