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  • Lavender Pit in Bisbee
    Natural SurroundingsSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    October 16, 2015
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    Lavender Pit in Bisbee Produced Massive Amounts of Copper

    BISBEE – If you've ever used a kitchen spoon to dig a hole in your back yard, or wondered how long it would take you to shovel your way to China, the Lavender Pit may be your personal mecca. It's a big hole in the ground, dug over a 23-year span as part of a ...
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  • Odd ObservationsSouthern Arizona
    By Sam Lowe
    May 16, 2014
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    One of the World’s Largest Open Pit Mines in Sahuarita

    SAHUARITA -- The Asarco Mineral Discovery Center, a tourist attraction south of Tucson, shows guests how big things get in Arizona. The center is affiliated with the Asarco Mission Mine, an open-pit operation that has been around since 1911. The hole measures more than 2.3 miles long...
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  • Natural SurroundingsOdd Observations
    By Sam Lowe
    March 17, 2014
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    Pick Mining for Peridot on the San Carlos Apache Reservation

    PERIDOT -- Several roads lead to the world's largest deposit of peridot but less than half of them actually lead to the mine itself. They do, however, lead to roads that might lead to the mine. But once there, there's no actual mine...
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  • Dose of HistorySmall Town Scene
    By Sam Lowe
    March 5, 2014
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    The Mine That Ate an Arizona Town

    MORENCI -- If you ever dug up your mom's garden with a tin scoop shovel and hauled the dirt away in a toy dump truck, you might want to look down into the Morenci Mine and appreciate what grownups can do with real tools.
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  • Mining Pick
    Dose of History
    By Sam Lowe
    December 8, 2013
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    Amulet Mine a Surprising, Somewhat Painful Find

    LYNX CREEK — One of the first things a miner should learn is to be careful where he puts his pick. As proof, consider an item from the May 13, 1899, edition of the Prescott Journal Miner concerning J.M. Moore and how he discovered the Amulet Mine. According to the report, Moore was prospecting on ...
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  • Art
    By Andrea Aker
    February 15, 2013
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    Featured Artist: Pete the Miner

    About once a month, Arizona Oddities features a Q&A with a talented Arizona artist who is influenced by our state’s people, places and history. This month, sculptor Pete Incardona - aka Pete the Miner - shares his rocky path to becoming a bona fide artist.
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  • Culture
    By Sam Lowe
    January 16, 2013
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    Anthony Blum: The Man Who Conned a Priest

    Have you heard the one about how Anthony Blum's deathbed confession kept him out of jail? It happened more than a century ago. In 1910, Blum was on trial in Connecticut, accused of bilking Father Arthur DeBruycker of $5,000 in a scheme involving a fake mining claim in Gleeson, Arizona Territory.
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  • Gold
    Dose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    September 3, 2012
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    Salting Schemes in Old Arizona

    One over-zealous promoter distributed brochures back east extolling the mineral riches in the Bradshaw Mountains. On the cover was a picture of an ocean-going, ore-laden vessel steaming down the mighty Hassayampa River. Unscrupulous prospectors upgraded their dubious min­ing properties in a manner contrary to nature by a process known as salting.
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  • Burro in Oatman
    Natural SurroundingsNorthern ArizonaSmall Town Scene
    By Andrea Aker
    August 14, 2012
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    Roam Among Wild Burros in Oatman

    OATMAN – Tourists flock to this former mining town along historic Route 66 in droves. Situated in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, many come for a taste of the Wild West while others come to feed friendly families of wild burros who’ve staked claim to the land for generations.
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  • CultureDose of History
    By Andrea Aker
    June 5, 2011
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    History, Theories Surrounding the Lost Dutchman Mine

    Arizona's most notorious lost treasure story for both believers and otherwise takes place in the mysterious Superstition Mountains. The rugged range of mountains east of the Salt River Valley encom­passes some of the most breathtaking, untouched wilderness recesses in America. There is also an aura of mystical beauty that can possess the soul. They are regarded ...
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