Tag Archives: Mining

There are few places in Arizona that allow one to simultaneously stand in the present and experience the past as vividly as the Old Dominion Mine Park in Globe. Seen through the eyes of a woman who considered herself an outsider some 19 years ago, the park is simultaneously a …

  SUPERIOR – The annual festival will be held March 17th – 19th beginning with a kick off Friday night at 5 pm with live music, carnival, vendors with yummy food and great retail items along with a beer garden.  Saturday the event begins at 10 am with the traditional …

The Tonto National Forest held the second of four planned public meetings in Globe at the Elks Club last evening. Over sixty people attended and public comments and questions were heard for nearly three hours. What is “public scoping” and “EIS?” “Public Scoping” is the first step in the NEPA (National …

Shortly after I moved to Globe-Miami two years ago, I was invited to go on a gold prospecting trip with Miami locals Don Reiman (also Miami’s new vice mayor) and Dik Mickle. I met them on Sullivan Street in downtown Miami on a summer morning just before dawn. We loaded …

After the California Gold Rush of ’49 and the relative easy pickin’s of gold dried up in streams and riverbeds, prospectors went after precious minerals found in veins running deep underground.  Hard rock mining, requiring engineers and big money soon followed and much entrepreneurial capital was directed at the task of reaching …

Once upon a time, the Old Dominion was one of the most prolific copper mines, a dominant player in the national copper market and a major employer here in Globe-Miami. More than 80 years later, the site now serves as one of the few self-guided mine tours in existence, as well as a walking park, open to the public and free of charge.

The History of the Old Dominion Mine It was the largest mine operation in a region replete with copper mines at the turn of the Century. The community of Globe-Miami was built on copper and the East Coast money which flocked here at the turn of the century to cash …