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History of Mining in Arizona (Volume 1)


Placer miner operating a rocker in Copper Basin Wash in Yavapai County, Arizona.  Fifty to sixty individuals operated rockers and small sluices in the drainage during the Great Depression.  Courtesy of the Arizona Geological Survey.


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Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., 1987, History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, Volume 1, 279 p.

Contents

Lacy, J.C., 1987, Early History of Mining in Arizona – Acquisition of Mineral Rights, 1539-1866 [ch. 1], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation Foundation, v. 1, p. 1-12.

Greeley, M.N., 1987, The Early Influence of Mining in Arizona [ch. 2], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, Chapter 2, p. 13-50.

Graeme, R.W., 1987, Bisbee, Arizona's Dowager Queen of Mining Camps; A Look at Her First 50 Years [ch. 3], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 51-76.

Pape, R.F., 1987, Big Bug Lead-Zinc District [ch. 4], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 77-98.

Conger, W.C., 1987, History of the Clifton-Morenci District [ch. 5], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 99-128.

Rabb, D.D., and Chase, C.K., 1987, History of Mineral Processing in Arizona [ch. 6], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 129-152.

Goudy, Karin, 1987, Life in a Boom Town - Oatman, Arizona [ch. 7], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 153-176.

Coggin, H.M., 1987, A History of Placer Mining in Arizona [ch. 8], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 177-190.

Rickard, F.R., 1987, History of Smelting in Arizona [ch. 9], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 191-228.

Cook, H., 1987, Too Little - Too Much; Water and the Tombstone Story, [ch. 10], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 229-251.

Irvin, G.W., 1987, A Sequential History of Arizona Railroad and Mining Development, 1864-1920 [ch. 11], in Canty, J. M., and Greeley, M. N., eds., History of Mining in Arizona:  Mining Club of the Southwest Foundation, v. 1, p. 253-278.




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