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Its orebody ran 23% copper, an extraordinarily high grade. [2] It was acquired by Phelps Dodge in 1885. In the early 1900s, this was the most productive copper mine in Arizona. [3] While copper mining declined in the area in the 1930s and 1940s, the Copper Queen continued to be mined by the open-pit process during the years following World War ...
George Warren (c. 1835–1893) [1] worked as a prospector in the Tombstone and Bisbee, Arizona region during the late 19th century. He is credited with having located the body of copper ore, which later was known as the Copper Queen Mine, one of Arizona's most productive copper mines.
James Walter Douglas (4 November 1837 – 25 June 1918) was a British North America born mining engineer and businessman who introduced a number of metallurgical innovations in copper mining and amassed a fortune through the copper mining industry of Bisbee, Arizona Territory and Sonora before and after the turn of the 20th century.
The Calumet and Arizona Mining Company organized in March, 1901 and operated several large and profitable mines adjacent to the Copper Queen. 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 ...
Dr. Douglas inspected the Detroit Copper Co of Morenci and also ventured south to the Warren District. On his advice, Phelps-Dodge began its own mining operations in the Warren District with the purchase of the Atlanta Copper Mine in 1882, neighboring the Copper Queen Mine. When both mines discovered the same ore body, instead of fighting over ...
Bisbee, looking east, 1909 Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town; topographical map from 1902. Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the financial backers of the adjacent Copper Queen Mine. The town was the site of the Bisbee Riot in 1919.
English: Dr. James Douglas, expert mining engineer and president of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company. Title: The American Museum journal Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches) Year: c1900-(1918) Authors: American Museum of Natural History Subjects: Natural history Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
The city was dominated by Phelps Dodge (which owned the Copper Queen Mine) and two other mining firms: the Calumet and Arizona Co., and the Shattuck Arizona Co. Phelps Dodge was by far the largest company and employer in the area; it also owned the largest hotel in town, the hospital, the only department store, the town library, and the town ...