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Minerals 

List of minerals  species

Type species from Bisbee

Bisbee goes to the World's Fair

Where to see Bisbee Minerals

Post Mining Minerals

Turquoise

Glossary of Common Mining Terms

Mineral fluorescence

Mineral Gallery

Gallery by Species

Fluorescent Mineral Gallery

History

Opening of the West

Discovery to 1900

Mining history 1900 - 1930

Mining history 1930 - 1975

History of Bisbee 1 945 - 1975

The labor movement

The mining companies contributed to the community

Social History

Red-Light District

Girls Of The Red-Light

Whispers of the Underworld

Stories and Legends

Wailing woman

Headless miner

Haunted House

Tales from the Schoolyard

Jail house

Stories from the Deep

Mexican Revolution

Out of the ordinary

World War One

Business list

1880 Business List

1881 Business List

1882 Business List

1883 Business List

1884 Business List

1885 Business List

1886 Business List

1887 Business List

1888 Business List

1898 Business List

1899 Business List

Copper Clothes

Old Timer Caught

How They Helped Friend in Bisbee

Superintendent of Mines turned down for a car

Bisbee High School 1958-1960 galleries 

Bisbee High School gallery 1

Bisbee High School gallery 2

Bisbee High School gallery 3

History Gallery

Rare Documents 

Story of how big ore bodies were discovered

Notations from annual reports Years 1909 through 1950 

Mining Conditions in Bisbee, Arizona

The Copper Queen Mine, Arizona

The Calumet & Arizona Mining Co.

Plat drawings of the Copper Queen Mine 1881

History of open pit mining 1953.

Report on the Bisbee Deportations.

Location notice for the Rucker claim.

Notes on the Paleozoic Limestone series at Bisbee Arizona.

Mining Methods at the Campbell Mine of the Calumet & Arizona Co., Warren Ariz.

Slope Failures in the Lavender pit, Bisbee Arizona

Mining

Underground mines

The Art of Underground Mining

Map of Important Mines and Prospects

Important Places Underground

Mines  in Bisbee 1909

Mines in Lowell 1909

Mines south of Lowell 1919

Mines in Lowell 1927

Mines in Don Luis 2016

Reading underground mine maps

Map of the Copper Queen Mines

Underground mine levels in Division 1

Underground mine map of the Cole and Dallas mines

Depth of Bisbee's major underground mines

Ballpark stope

Open pit mines

The Art of Open Pit Mining 1917-1975

Progression of open pit mining

Holbrook Extension panorama

Lavender pit 1957 panorama

Sacramento  pit 1925 panorama

Lavender pit mine complex 1963 panorama

Mining companies

Lessor

Mining companies in Bisbee

Mining claims of the Warren Mining District

Glossary of mining terms

Glossary of Mining and Mining Related  Terms as used at Bisbee Arizona 2nd edition.

Glossary of mining terms used in Bisbee.

Pictorial Glossary

Parts of a Mine

Parts of a Mine with Open Pit mining

List of Mines

#4 Claim

Brook

A.B.C. Mine

ABC Shaft 

Air Shaft ( Sacramento mine)

American Development Shaft 

American-Saginaw Shaft

Arizona Bisbee Copper Company Shaft

Arizona Prince Tunnel 

Bazaar Shaft

Bernard Tunnel

Big Fortune Shaft

Bisbee-Arizona Mine

Bisbee Belle Mine

Bisbee-Duluth Mine

Bisbee Con Shaft 

Bisbee Consolidated Shaft

Bisbee Extension Mine

Bisbee Queen Shaft

Bisbee West # 1 Shaft

Bisbee West # 3 Shaft

Bisbee West #2 Shaft

Bisbee West #4 Shaft

Bisbee-Arizona Shaft

Blass Shaft

Blass Tunnel

Boras  Shaft

Boras # 2 Shaft

Boras Incline Shaft

Briggs Shaft

Broken Promise # 1 Shaft 

Broken Promise # 2 Shaft 

Broken Promise Shaft 

Bullard Mine

C & A Shaft 

C & B Shaft

C & C Shaft 

C & P Shaft 

Calumet & Arizona Shaft  

Calumet & Bisbee Shaft

Calumet & Cochise Shaft

Calumet & Pittsburgh Shaft 

Cannon Tunnel

Chapman Shaft

Charon Shaft

Cochise Incline Shaft

Cochise Queen Shaft

Cochise Shaft

Cole # 3 Shaft 

Cole Adit

Cole Interior Shaft

Congdon Shaft

Contact Shaft 

Copper Boy Shaft

Copper Czar Shaft

Copper Glance Shaft

Copper Prince Tunnel

Copperopolis Mine

Crescent Shaft 

Cuprite Shaft

Czar Shaft

Dallas Mine

Denn Mine

Denn & Arizona Mine

Disowned Mine

Drainage Tunnel 

Dubacher Shaft

Duluth & Pittsburgh Shaft 

East # 1 Shaft

East Side Mine

East Side Shaft

East Side Tunnel

Easter Sunday Mine

Easter Sunday Shaft

Easter Sunday Adit

Empire State Tunnel

Galena Mine / Claim

Galena Shaft

Gardner Shaft

Georgia Tunnel

Glance Shaft 

Gloryholes (Sac pit)

Golden Era Mine

Golden Era Shaft

Golden Gate Mine

Grass Valley Shaft

Hayes Air Shaft 

Hayes Shaft

Hendricks Mine

Higgins Incline 

Higgins Incline Shaft 

Higgins mine

Higgins Mine ( see Twilight Mine)

Higgins Shaft

Higgins Tunnel

Hoatson Shaft

Holbrook #1 Shaft

Holbrook #2 Shaft

Holbrook Shaft 

Home Town Mine

Hope-Wagner Shaft

Houghton Shaft 

Houghton Tunnel (lower)

Houghton Tunnel (upper)

Irish Mag Air Shaft

Irish Mag Shaft

Irish Meg # 2

Ironclad Mine/Claim

Ivanhoe Shaft

Junction Air Shaft

Juniper Flats Mine

Kentucky tunnel

L. S. & P. # 3 Shaft

Lake Superior & Pittsburgh #3 Shaft

Little Emil Mine 

Lonestar Shaft

Lookout shaft

Lover's Leap Shaft

Lowell Shaft

Lowell Incline Shaft

Lower  Tunnel

Lower Shaft 

Lytle Contract 

Mag Shaft 

Main shaft 

Marquette & Arizona Mine

Mary Ann Mine/Claim

Merrill-Bell Shaft

Modern Mine

Mountain View Mine

New Holbrook Shaft 

New York Mine

New York Shaft 

Night hawk Shaft

No. 3 shaft 

No.4 Incline shaft

Oakland Shaft

Old Grass Valley Shaft

Old Higgins 

Old Holbrook Shaft 

Old Shaft 

Old Warren Shaft 

Old World's Fair Shaft 

Oliver shaft

P & D Shaft 

Pájaro Shaft 

Palmer Shaft

Phelps Tunnel

Pittsburgh & Duluth Shaft 

Pittsburgh & Hecla Shaft

Portage Lake & Bisbee  Shaft 

Portage Lake Shaft

Powell Shaft

Prince Tunnel 

Quincy & Arizona Shaft

Red Jacket & Bisbee Shaft 

Red Jacket Shaft

Reese Shaft

S & B # 3 Shaft 

S & P Shaft 

S & P No.3 Shaft 

Sacramento Adit

Sac air shaft 

Sac Shaft 

Sac hill

Sac hill Tunnel

Sac Tunnel

Sac pit

Sacramento Concentrator Tunnel

Sacramento hill

Sacramento Shaft

Sacramento Tunnel

Sacramento pit

Saginaw Incline 

Saginaw Shaft

Shattuck & Arizona Shaft 

Shattuck Denn Mine

Shattuck shaft

Silver Bear Shaft

South Bisbee # 3 Shaft 

South Bisbee #1 Shaft

Spray Shaft

Subway 

Subway Tunnel 

Superior & Pittsburgh Shaft 

Superior & Pittsburgh Shaft no.3 shaft 

Thompson Shaft

Thursby Incline Shaft

Truax Mine 

Truax Gold Property 

Truax-Zane Claims 

Twilight Mine

Twilight mine (Higgins Mine)

Twilight Shaft 

Utah Shaft

U.S. Shaft 

Uncle Sam Shaft

United Verde Extension Shaft 

Upper Higgins Tunnel

Upper Shaft 

Upper Tunnel 

UVX Shaft 

Van Horn Shaft 

Veranda Shaft

Wade Hampton Shaft

Warren Incline

Warren Raise

Warren Shaft

West Shaft

White Tail Incline Shaft

Whitetail Deer Incline

White tail Shaft 

White Tailed Deer Shaft 

Whitetail Deer Shaft

Wolverine & Arizona Shaft 

Wolverine Interior (see Wolverine interior Shaft)

Wolverine interior Shaft (Higgins Tunnel Level)

Wolverine interior Shaft (100 Level)

Wolverine Shaft (see Wolverine #1 Shaft also refers to Wolverine #2 Shaft)

Wolverine#1 Shaft

Wolverine#2 Shaft

World's Fair Shaft

Young Shaft

Miners

Job titles for the underground divison

Organizational chart for the underground mines division

Nicknames

Nicknames A-C

Nicknames D-G

Nicknames H-M

Nicknames N-S

Nicknames T-Z

Fatal Mine Accidents

7-Bells: Mine Safety & Accidents at Bisbee, Arizona 2nd edition 

7-Bells: Mine Safety & Accidents at Bisbee, Arizona 1st edition 

Miners lists

1918 Liberty Bond List A-B

1918 Liberty Bond List C-D

1918 Liberty Bond List E-G

1918 Liberty Bond List H-L

1918 Liberty Bond List M-N

1918 Liberty Bond List O-R

1918 Liberty Bond List S-T

1918 Liberty Bond List U-Z

1920 Bisbee miners list A

1920 Bisbee miners list B

1920 Bisbee miners list C

1920 Bisbee miners list D

1920 Bisbee miners list E

1920 Bisbee miners list F

1920 Bisbee miners list G

1920 Bisbee miners list H

1920 Bisbee miners list I

1920 Bisbee miners list J

1920 Bisbee miners list K

1920 Bisbee miners list L

1920 Bisbee miners list M

1920 Bisbee miners list N

1920 Bisbee miners list O

1920 Bisbee miners list P

1920 Bisbee miners list Q

1920 Bisbee miners list R

1920 Bisbee miners list S

1920 Bisbee miners list T

1920 Bisbee miners list U

1920 Bisbee miners list V

1920 Bisbee miners list W

1920 Bisbee miners list X

1920 Bisbee miners list Y

1920 Bisbee miners list Z

1930 mining company employee list A

1930 mining company employee list B

1930 mining company employee list C

1930 mining company employee list D

1930 mining company employee list E

1930 mining company employee list F

1930 mining company employee list G

1930 mining company employee list H

1930 mining company employee list I

1930 mining company employee list J

1930 mining company employee list K

1930 mining company employee list L

1930 mining company employee list M

1930 mining company employee list N

1930 mining company employee list O

1930 mining company employee list P

1930 mining company employee list Q

1930 mining company employee list R

1930 mining company employee list S

1930 mining company employee list T

1930 mining company employee list U

1930 mining company employee list V

1930 mining company employee list W

1930 mining company employee list X

1930 mining company employee list Y

1930 mining company employee list Z

1946 mining company employee list A-C

1946 mining company employee list D-G

1946 mining company employee list H-M

1946 mining company employee list N-S

1946 mining company employee list T-Z

1949 underground shift boss list

1951 mining company  employee list A-C

1951 mining company  employee list D-G

1951 mining company  employee list H-M

1951 mining company  employee list N-S

1951 mining company  employee list T-Z

1955 mining company  employee list A-C

1955 mining company  employee list G-H

1955 mining company  employee list H-M

1955 mining company  employee list N-S

1955 mining company  employee list T-Z

1959 Phelps Dodge employee List A-C

1959 Phelps Dodge employee List D-G

1959 Phelps Dodge employee List H-M

1959 Phelps Dodge employee List N-S

1959 Phelps Dodge employee List T-Z

1968 Miners list

1969 Miners list

1972 mining company  employee list A-C

1972 mining company  employee list D-G

1972 mining company  employee list H-M

1972 mining company  employee list N-S

1972 mining company  employee list T-Z

underground staff 1972

1973 Miners list

1974 Seniority list for underground division

End of mining operations list 1974-1975

Bisbee miners list  from various sources A

Bisbee miners list  from various sources B

Bisbee miners list  from various sources C

Bisbee miners list  from various sources D

Bisbee miners list  from various sources E

Bisbee miners list  from various sources F

Bisbee miners list  from various sources G

Bisbee miners list  from various sources H

Bisbee miners list  from various sources I

Bisbee miners list  from various sources K

Bisbee miners list  from various sources L

Bisbee miners list  from various sources M

Bisbee miners list  from various sources N

Bisbee miners list  from various sources O

Bisbee miners list  from various sources P

Bisbee miners list  from various sources Q

Bisbee miners list  from various sources R

Bisbee miners list  from various sources S

Bisbee miners list  from various sources T

Bisbee miners list  from various sources U

Bisbee miners list  from various sources V

Bisbee miners list  from various sources X

Bisbee miners list  from various sources Y

Bisbee miners list  from various sources Z

1959 Phelps Dodge employee list Douglas Arizona

1959 Phelps Dodge Shift boss list 

1960 Phelps Dodge Shift boss list 

1961 Phelps Dodge Shift boss list 

Copper Queen Branch employees

Electric Shop 1930's

Electric Shop 1940's

Electric Shop 1950's

Electric Shop 1970's

Add a miner

Miners wages 1968-1973

Miners gallery

Mining Equipment

Mine Cars

A-Car

B-Car

E-Car

H-Car

K-Car

Acetylene Car

Gable Bottom Car

Man Car

Boss's Bike

Concrete Car

Copper Queen Car

Pipe and Track Car

Powder Car

Queen Rocker

Water Car

Trolley Wire Car

Sanitary Car

Steel Car

Air Receiver Car

Rock Drills

Hand Drilling

Competition Drilling

Wiggle Tail Stoper

Jackleg

Explosives

Blasting

Types of Dynamite used  in Bisbee

Micro Blasting

Types of rounds used in  underground blasting

Standard crosscut rounds

Standard stope and shaft rounds

Standard raise rounds

Firing order for 5 hole burn stope round

Firing order for 5 hole burn stope round Pete Oller

Firing order for 5 hole burn stope round Kelly Castillo

Spitters

Types of Blasting Caps used in Bisbee’s underground mines

Underground Lighting

Electric Cap Lamp

Carbide Lamps

Candles

Misc Mining Equipment

Mine Phones

Wheel Barrows

Air Doors

Blowpipe

Mucking Machines

Misc Mining

Mine fires

Crosscuts & Drifts

Verde Chute

Mules

Metal Production

Czar change house

42 Transfer Raise

Mining Gallery

Geology

General Geology 

Forgotten Caves

Geology Map

Stratigraphy

Geology Gallery

Bisbee through geological time

Bio

Bibliography

Contact

Books

Downloadable Books

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