People/magnate, financier

Clara Kinney

Clara Kinney (born 1849), magnate, financier, from United States. Linked to copper.

The lucky break

Born in Austria, she built a boarding house in Globe, Arizona, and in 1889 bought the Bryan group of mines near Kelvin.1

Legacy

Patented 25 claims in the Sleeping Beauty Mountains between 1907 and 1919. The Foundation describes her as the most prolific and successful woman mine owner in the Globe-Miami district.1

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People

An example ofClara ClarkTwo women in US copper: mine owner Clara Kinney and assayer Clara Clark.1

Sources

  1. 2026 Inductees from Mining's Past Mining Foundation of the Southwest

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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