By Clara Migoya/El Inde Antonio Tapia, 79, stands on the porch of his southside Tucson home, scanning a sepia drawing through thick, smoky glasses. His eyes move from a tall poplar tree in the picture, to the small adobe building, the tin-shed house, a horse pasturing, the dirt street at the border of the wire…
By Clara Migoya /El Inde In a lot on Harshaw Avenue, off-road trucks line up in neat rows. The small town of Patagonia is seeing new activity in the nearby mountains now that South32, an Australian mining company, is running round-the-clock mineral drilling operations at the Hermosa-Taylor mine. “The Taylor deposit, just by scale, is…
Copper’s value is on the rise, and equipped with new mining technology, Arizona has a promising future in producing the nation’s copper. The value of copper hit $3.20 in mid 2014, before taking a dive to $2.50 in early 2015. It took a significant dip into an all time low of $1.60 in 2016. Now,…
Some geographic ranges are naturally blessed with commodities that are heavy contributors to their economic success. California has timber, Nevada has gold, Wisconsin has cheese and Arizona has copper. Arizona has been a key contributor to the global economy since the ground-breaking of the first Arizona-based copper mine in 1872. It has since been…
Bisbee is the city in the middle of a desert. The mining community was once considered the most highly urbanized town between St. Louis and San Francisco. But did you know the town is also considered one of the most architecturally diverse in the nation, considering its population and size? “Bisbee has all the characteristics…
