Santa Rita del Cobre: A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico by Christopher J. Huggard, Terrence M. Humble

Santa Rita del Cobre: A Copper Mining Community in New Mexico

Mining the American West

Christopher J. Huggard, Terrence M. Humble

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The Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans, successively, mined copper for more than 200 years in Santa Rita, New Mexico. Starting in 1799 after an Apache man led the Spanish to the native copper deposits, miners at the site followed industry developmen...

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