Hard rock miner

Statue in Kellogg, Idaho, USA. The hillsides around Kellogg, barren from smelter fumes as late as the 1980s, have recovered and the area now hosts lots of upscale real-estate developments!

I think this is a copy of a sculpture on the north side of I-90 that memorializes the 91 miners killed by a fire at the Sunshine Mine in 1972. It was one of the worst mine disasters in US history.