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Mining in Arizona
This is just a brief list of information on mining history in Arizona. General  and Copper Mining in Arizona and will provide a list of links and resources in which you can find more information on either. The other links are connected to information about communities in which mining was prominent. It is broken down into three categories, Gold, Silver, Copper Mining Communities. The information about the communities is mostly about the community itself, but its identity and history is linked to mining. Below is a map of all mining areas in Arizona, courtesy of the Arizona Mining Association's scanning of Historical Atlas of Arizona by Henry E. Walker and Don Bufkin. This publication is available online at netLibrary, follow the link by clicking on the title above.
 

General Mining in Arizona
Phelps Dodge Corporation
 

Gold Mining Communities

Chloride
Bullhead City
Gila City (no link)
Oatman
Pearce
Quartzsite
Apache Junction (where the lost dutchman's mine is hidden, but not necessarily naturally)
Salome
Wickenburg
 

Silver Mining Communites

Globe
Superior
Tombstone
Tubac
 

Copper Mining Communities

Ajo
Bagdad
Bisbee
Benson
Douglas
Jerome
Clifton-Morenci
Mammoth
Miami
Globe
Safford
Superior


From Historical Atlas of Arizona. Second edition, by
  Henry E. Walker and Don Bufkin. Copyright © 1986
by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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