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 …
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Protestors March 44 Miles Against Land Exchange
Yesterday morning, members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe led roughly 70 people on a 44-mile march in protest to Congress’ recent approval of a bill that transfers 2,400 acres of national forest land, which includes Oak Flat, to the mining company Resolution Copper for development of an underground mine. Individuals from …
Read More »Gold Fever: Why Two Local Gold Prospectors Keep Up Hunt
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 …
Read More »Lighting the Way: Carbide Mining Lamps
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 …
Read More »Tour the Old Dominion
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.
Read More »Preserving the legacy of the Old Dominion mine
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 …
Read More »The Tin Men of Cornwall
Tin was one of the first metals known to man, and the extraction of tin in Cornwall, England dates back to the Bronze Age, when tin was combined with copper to produce Bronze. The Tin industry supported the area from the 16th century to well into the 1800’s when tin …
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