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Azurite, malachite and associated minerals from Bisbee, cochise county, Arizona.(Brief article)

For the better part of a century, the ore deposits at Bisbee, Arizona, discovered by an Army scout in 1877, were world-class. They have produced millions of tons of copper, large tonnages of zinc, lead and manganese, and millions of ounces of gold and silver. Despite this immense wealth, it was the spectacular mineral specimens that made Bisbee famous long before the size or richness of the ore deposits were ever realized. From the very earliest times at Bisbee, the mine employees--miners, repairmen, ore handlers, foremen and engineers--all collected the minerals they found in the mines and took them home. This was a tradition at Bisbee, something many considered almost a ...

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