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The company made Bisbee Blue and Villa Grove inlay turquoise jewelry up until the 1980s. In the early 2000s the Durango Silver Company, bought what was thought to be left of the Bob Matthews/Cecil Mickelson Collection of Bisbee turquoise. This collection amounted to approximately 500 lb (230 kg) of rough Bisbee turquoise.
Bisbee turquoise, also known as Bisbee Blue, is amongst the finest turquoise found anywhere in the world. [2] Mining operations in the pit ended in 1974. The undeveloped Cochise deposit, located immediately north of the Lavender pit, contains an estimated 190 million tons of rock containing 0.4% acid-soluble copper, [ 3 ] which may be mined in ...
Roughly bounded by the City of Bisbee city limits north of Lavender Pit Mine, excluding existing Bisbee Historic District 31°26′38″N 109°55′26″W / 31.4439°N 109.9238°W / 31.4439; -109.9238 ( Bisbee Residential Historic
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C. S. Fly's image of miner George Warren first appeared in Souvenir of Bisbee published in 1900. Fly's caption was, "Discoverer of the Copper Queen Mine." The presence of copper ore in the Mule Mountains of southeast Arizona may have been known as early as 1876, but the first mining claim was filed on August 2, 1877. [4]
The price of silver had decreased by 1881, however by the same token the price of copper increased. The Old Dominian Copper Mining Company began to flourish. Copper mining is the most profitable venture in Globe. [1] [2] [3]
The Bisbee Historic District is a historic district located in Bisbee, Arizona, and has all the essential features of a prosperous, early twentieth century mining town. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [ 2 ]
Bisbee may refer to: Bisbee, Arizona. Bisbee Blue, turquoise from Bisbee, Arizona; Bisbee Deportation, the illegal expulsion of 1,300 miners from Bisbee, Arizona (1917) Bisbee Riot, gunfight between black Buffalo Soldiers and local police in Bisbee, Arizona (1919) Bisbee massacre, payroll robbery and murder, followed by hangings, in Bisbee ...