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Copper Queen Mine Tour, Sept 2008 Classic Bisbee Azurite and Malachite specimen from the Copper Queen mine. This specimen was in the personal collection of Dr. James Douglas, and was later donated to the Smithsonian by his son. [1] The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum is a local history museum at 5 Copper Queen Plaza in Bisbee, Arizona. It is located in the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark for the importance of the Phelps Dodge Corporation's role in the growth and development of the American Southwest. The museum is dedicated primarily ...
By 1907, the C&A was the fourth-most productive copper mine in Arizona, and ran its own smelter in Douglas, Arizona. [5] Phelps Dodge started mining the Lavender open pit in the early 1950s. [4] The Lavender pit closed in 1974. The Copper Queen mine, Bisbee's first working mine, was also its last.
The Sacramento Hill was an open pit mine from 1917 through 1929, and the Lavender Pit, one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world, was in operation from 1951 to 1974. In 1975 the Copper Queen Mine ceased operations, and by this time the mining around Bisbee had become a small part of the operations of Phelps Dodge.
While working for Chemical Copper, Douglas had opportunity to view fabulously rich specimens from a mine in Bisbee, Arizona Territory known as the Copper Queen mine, the latter's bonanza orebody having been opened by a San Francisco firm two years previously. Only a day's travel from Morenci, Douglas visited the other claim, then looked around ...
For one day only, Dairy Queen restaurants nationwide will be giving away one free small vanilla soft-serve cone. The offer is free without purchase at participating non-mall locations in the U.S.
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In 2017, it looked as if $23 million in repairs were needed just to keep the Queen Mary from capsizing. Long Beach has now spent much more than that. New rooms, tours, activities: Queen Mary is ...