It takes the average reader 4 hours and 12 minutes to read An Open Pit Visible from the Moon by Adam M. Sowards
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Situated among the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area, Miners Ridge contains vast quantities of copper. Kennecott Copper Corporation’s plan to develop an open-pit mine there was, when announced in 1966, the first test of the mining provision of the Wilderness Act passed by Congress in 1964. The battle over the proposed “Open Pit, Big Enough to Be Seen from the Moon,” as activists called it, drew the attention of both local and national conservationists, who vowed to stop the desecration of one of the West’s most scenic places. Kennecott Copper had...
An Open Pit Visible from the Moon by Adam M. Sowards is 251 pages long, and a total of 63,001 words.
This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read An Open Pit Visible from the Moon aloud.
An Open Pit Visible from the Moon is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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