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Copper Mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, lies north of Banff near Redearth Creek and the Trans-Canada Highway. Its name dates to 1884, when geologist George M. Dawson climbed to a mining site established in 1881 by Joe Healy and J.S. Dennis, who reported finding copper there. The naming story also holds that Dawson first spotted and named Mount Assiniboine from this point. Formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain reflects the geological forces that shaped the Canadian Rockies and remains part of Banff’s protected landscape.
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