Copper Queen Mine commemorative plaque - Bisbee

Continuing my Southern Arizona Adventure 2024 and continuing my visit to Bisbee Arizona. This is stage 7 of 9.
I took the tour of the Copper Queen Mine. I should have taken a flash or light with me into the Mine. It was too dark to get decent hand held photos. Lesson learned. I hope to go back next year.
This was special for me since my GreatGrandfather, Grandfather, and many Uncles, worked in underground copper mines in Arizona from the 1890's through the 1950's.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Queen_Mine
The Copper Queen Mine was a copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. Its development led to the growth of the surrounding town of Bisbee in the 1880s. 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 II. With decreasing returns, Phelps Dodge closed it in 1985.
The surface pockets of cerussite were soon exhausted, but the owners found that the orebody ran 23% copper, with silver and gold as byproducts. Most mines of that era could profitably mine ore containing 8% to 10% copper, so the Copper Queen orebody was considered extraordinarily high grade. The surface oxide ore was exhausted after three or four years, but miners explored deeper and eventually found even larger orebodies.[2]

Haiku thoughts:
Deep in Bisbee's rock,
Copper veins weave stories old—
Queen's treasure revealed.

Southern Arizona Adventure 2024

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Taken in: United States / Arizona / Bisbee (show map)

Taken on: November 16, 2024

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