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Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
by Sonnichsen, C.L.
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Tucson; (1974): University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 325pp., illustrated with photographic images. The spectacular rise and fall of William Cornell Greene; Copper king, cattle baron and promoter extraordinary in Mexico, the American Southwest, and the New York Financial District. By age 46, he had built a muti-million copper enterprise, started an enormous lumber business, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bisbee Urban Outpost on the Frontier
by Schwantes, Carlos A. (editor) and Tom Vaughan
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Tucson; (1992): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Quarto. 145(1)pp., illustrated with photographic images. Situated near the Mexican border in the southeastern Arizona, you iwll find the city of Bisbee. It gained prominence as a mining center around the turn of the century and by 1981 has produced almost eight billion pounds of copper. Bisbee is also a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Many Lives of the Lynx: a Century of Mining on Lynx Creek Between 1863 and 1963
by Potter, Alvina N.
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Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1964. Octavo. Revised Edition. xii, 215 pages, map on endpapers. Bibliographic references (pages 199-215). The Lynx was situated in the mining region between Walker and Poland in the heart of the highly mineralized Bradshaw Mountains, with the creek itself a tributary of the Hassayampa River, a veritable synonym for gold. First discovered and mined by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mystery of Superstition Mountain (inscribed By Oren Arnold
by Arnold, Oren
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Irvington-on-Hudson, New York; (1972): Harvey House. First Edition. Octavo. 191 pages. Inscribed: "Kindness regards to Dwight Weber who has a heart of gold., Oren Arnold, July 1972." Illustrated by Jimmie Ihms. A scarce book by Oren Arnold whose exploration of the Superstitions and his writing on the literature and folklore of the mountain led the governor to grant him… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bisbee: Queen of the Copper Camps
by Bailey, Lynn R.
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- 1983
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Tucson, AZ: Westernlore Press, 1983. First Edition. Quarto. 159 pages, index. maps, and over 100 photographs. An essential work on Bisbee from the discovery of rich ore in 1877 to the end of its major mining in the early 1970's. A fine copy bound in red cloth, spine lettering gilt, in a near fine blue pictorial dust jacket lettered… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Treatise on Mine Surveying
by Brough, Bennett H. And Revised By Harry Dean
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- 1920
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London: Charles Griffin and Co, 1920. Octavo. Half-title with advertisement on verso. Frontispiece showing mine surveying of the Middle Ages, xviii, 477pp. 32pp. publisher's catalog, illustrated throughout showing chain survey with diagrams, sinking shafts, mineral deposits, `instruments used, and much more. Though this book had been revised, it apparently was revised so much that accentually it became a new… Read more about this item Item Price
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Las Minas De Mexico (edicion ilustrada); Historia--Geologica--Antiqua Mineria--y Descripcion General De Los Estados Mineros De La Republica Mexicana
by Southworth, John R.
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- 1905
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Liverpool, England: Printed for the Author by Blake & Mackenzie, 1905. Quarto. Text in English and Spanish. 260 pages, illustrated with several photographic images, plus (40) pages of ads (including one for Blake & Mackenzie who advertise as both lithograph and letterpress printers. One of the best books on the mines of Mexico in the 19th century. It even… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Story of Jacob Walzer, Superstition Mountain and Its Famed Dutchman's Lost Mine
by Barnard, Barney and Charles Frederick Higham (illustrator)
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Apache Junction, AZ, June, 1954: By the Author. First Edition. Oblong Octavo. 68pp. Inscribed by the author dated 20th June 1954. illustrated by Charles Frederick Higham. A fascinating and romantic tale of an old German prospector known to fame as the Old Dutchman and who's famous gold mine is still a mystery of Superstition Mountain. Contains a chronological order… Read more about this item Item Price
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Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy with "The Work of the Miner on the Western Front, 1915-1918
by Ball, H. Standish, 1888-1941, Editors William Gowland S.J. Truscott and C. McDermid
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London: House of the Institution, 1919. Octavo. lv, 339pp., illustrated with maps, diagrams, and photographic images. Habby Stansich Ball was born in South Africa in 1888 and died at Haslemere after a long illness p. 189-249. Ball was a distinguished mining engineer with wide experience of South African and American methods, and during the War of 1914-18 became one… Read more about this item Item Price
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Treasures of the Dead
by Traywick, Ben T.
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Tombstone, AZ: The Tombstone Epitaph, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. 108pp., illustrated. The stories presented are from those who sought treasures over the years. Such stories as silver treasure of the Nantahalas, Gold of the mother lode country, Wah Cheng's chest of gold, a jug of nuggets, Frank Fish's last treasure hunt and more. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff paper… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Phelps Dodge Strike
by United Steelworks of America
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Morenci Miners Union, 1984. Quarto. 12 pages. The Morenci Miners Union published this work to describe the Phelps Dodge Strike situation as of May 1984. It includes the strike timeline, updates to supporters, and a list of lawsuits pending. It asks for contributions to the USWA Local 616, Strike and Defense Fund of Clifton, Arizona, or the Copper Relief… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lost Treasure the Search for Hidden Gold
by Ferguson, Robert G.
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New York; (1957): Vantage Press. First Edition. Octavo. 134pp. An accumulation of stories not assembled to be published, but rather are personal notes of a treasure hunter, made up for his own use. As the author of these tales was aging during the time of publication, he simply wanted to share his knowledge in hopes someday, someone will find… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mining Museum, the Second Book: Mining and Metallurgical Equipment, Ornamental Casting
by Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute
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Saint Petersburg: Saint-Petersburg State Mining Institute, 2008. Quarto. Text in English and Russian. 191 pages. One of the world's finest natural history and engineering museums. English text (opposite Russian text) allows those in the West to see the great examples richly photographed to illustrate some of the finest examples of the technology and remarkable applications of mining. Bound in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mineralogy of Arizona
by Anthony, John, Sidney A. Williams and Richard A. Bideaux
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Tucson, Az; (1977): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. Color frontispiece, 254pp., which includes a bibliography and the district or locality of the minerals. Several of the specimens found have numbers that correspond to the locations on the maps at the rear. There are line drawings of some of the minerals and color photographic images of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mine Tracks; Their Location and Construction; Treating Briefly on the Materials Used and the Principles Involved in the Design and Installation with a Set of Rules for a Standard Practice
by McCrysyle, J.
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1918. First Edition. Octavo. Half-title, 105 pages, index. While many assume the laying of track was a simple matter, it was often delayed by poor engineering and the lack of trained trackmen. The Book of Rules in the back is one of the most carefully written guides to railroad engineers. The questions of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Journeys of Observation
by Rickard, T.A.
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San Francisco: Dewey Publishing Company, 1907. Small Thick Quarto. Author's edition, Inscribed: "With Christmas Greetings from the Author, December 23, 1921. xvi, 255 pages, vii, 130 pages with 144 pages of plates, illustrations, maps. 2 large distinct volumes in one. The beautiful cover of a Mexican with his sombrero were done by Maynard Dixon (see the MD… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fourth Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain; Official Program; Denver, Colo: October 4th, 5th, 6th,1889
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Denver: Np, 1889. First Edition. Octavo. Color die-cut booklet, with images. 48 pages of which 45 are color sketches of floats designed for the festival. With Colorado facing a severe depression from the Silver Crash of 1893, Major Hooper of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad proposed a festival that would be a western version of Mardi Gras. They… Read more about this item Item Price
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Subterraneous Surveying; with and Without the Magnetic Needle; New Edition with Seventy-six Diagrams and a general Index
by Fenwick, Thomas; Thomas Baker
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London: Lockwood & Co, 1871. Small Octavo. [v]-xiii, pages, 1 leaf, 165 pages including diagrams. He began his system in 1804 of solving the problem of subterranean mines as well as the variations with the magnetic needle. This became the definitive edition used in mining at the last part of the nineteenth century. Few copies… Read more about this item Item Price
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Something About the Prudhomme Gold Mining & Milling Co: Gold from the Mother Lode of California
by Prudhomme gold Mining & Milling Company
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Los Angeles, CA. [1974]. 12mo. 36 unnumbered pages. Laid in is a facsimile of the original cash subscripton blank, a four page promotional leaflet explaining why investing in their old mining venture was good in 1903 (and they survived well enough to keep up their promises to reprint this in 1974). OCLC reports that the only copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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![El Prodigio Mining Co., March 23, 1904 Autographed Document Signed with Carbon Copy [Spanish Translation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/652/1084652836.0.m.1.jpg)
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El Prodigio Mining Co., March 23, 1904 Autographed Document Signed with Carbon Copy [Spanish Translation]
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Once Porfirio Diaz became President of Mexico, he proceeded to limit the tax liability for investors. At the same time, he began a process of protecting mining interest against both Indian and bandit raids. By 1890 American investors began to aggressively add mining, railroads and ranching as a new "gold rush" mentality developed. These two documents from 1904 show… Read more about this item Item Price
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