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Article: Wandering along Arizona's copper trail. (copper towns)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- March 1, 1987
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Wandering along Arizona's copper trail
More than anything else, mining shapedArizona's territorial and early statehood years. No one mineral was more influential than copper, the metal of civilizations, the best conductor of electricity. For years Arizona called itself "The Copper State'; its capitol dome is still copper.
Endowed with one of the world's mostimportant sources of this metal, Arizona for 70 years has led the U.S. in its production --blasting, gouging, and leaching from the earth up to a million tons each year, far more than all the other states combined.
Today if you wander onto Arizona's coppertrail, telltale signs can't help but ...