Lavender Open-Pit Mine
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Lavender Open-Pit Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona
The caption on this earlier color postcard reads: "This mining operation is unique in that the pit is being dug where in 1953 lay U. S. HWY. 80 lined with business houses and flanked by homes of the two cities Bisbee and Lowell. The job of moving all these buildings to new sites south and west of town and relocating the highway along what is now the east rim of the pit."
Bisbee was named for Judge Dewitt Bisbee, a San Francisco investor who helped launch the region into an ambitious mining development in the 1880’s. Shortly after the turn of the century, Bisbee was the largest copper-mining town in the world with a population of over 20,000.
In November of 1974, the Phelps Dodge Corp. announced it would close the 1000 foot deep Lavender Pit copper mine on December 14 and either transfer or layoff the 300 men employed there. The amount of copper coming from the mine had been exhausted. Later, it was opened for tours as part of Bisbee's mining tourist attractions.
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