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Tombstone

Boom town, United States, founded 1879.

About Tombstone

City in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.1

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Mines

Worked atBisbee copper minesBisbee copper mines lies about 32 km away.1

Events

Led toSchieffelin finds silver at TombstoneTombstone is part of this story: Schieffelin finds silver at Tombstone.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q79873 (Tombstone)

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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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.