File:Copper Queen Mine exhibit - Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - 2012-05-17.jpg
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English: A replica of a portion of the Copper Queen Mine at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
The mine is located in Cochise County, Arizona. The town of Bisbee grew up nearby to house and serve the thousands of people who used to work in the mine. It was opened in 1877 to mine cerussite ("white lead"), or lead carbonate. The crussite played out right away, but then they discovered very pure and very huge copper deposits. In 1885, the Phelps Dodge mining company purchased the Copper Queen. In 1917, the miners at the Copper Queen went on strike. In July -- in an incident known as the "Bisbee Deportation" -- about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders were kidnapped by 2,000 vigilantes. The workers and others were held illegally at a baseball park in Bisbee. They were then loaded onto cattle cars and transported 200 miles for 16 hours through the desert without food or water. The deportees were unloaded at Hermanas, New Mexico, without money or transportation, and warned not to return to Bisbee. The Copper Queen was played out by the mid-1960s, and closed in 1975. |
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| Author | Tim Evanson |
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