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	Lavender Pit
		The Lavender Pit is part of the Copper Queen Mine, run by the Phelps Dodge Corporation from 1879 to 1975.
		The resulting Lavender Pit was mined in 50 foot benches created by loading holes drilled to a 60 foot depth with 1,200 pounds of powder charge.
		The abandoned pit covers 300 acres, is 950 feet deep, and is a result of the removal of 351 million tons of material.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/AZ3214 (199 words)

	lavender
		Lavender is a name generally applied to a group of small woody plants, grown as herbs and for ornament.
		Classification: Lavender is a member of the mint family, Lamiaceae.
		The word "lavender" is also used for several shades of the color purple.
	www.fact-library.com /lavender.html (224 words)

	Lavender Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lavender Pit is an open pit copper mine located in Cochise County Arizona, Bisbee, Arizona.
		The pit covers an area of 300 acres, and is 900 feet deep.
		This dump material in concert with the large open hole of the pit is considered an ecological disaster by many, but for its time, Phelps Dodge Corporation was within federal guide lines on mining codes.
	www.portaljuice.com /lavender_pit.html (228 words)

	Lavender Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is estimated that over abillion tons of copper was mined from the pit, with good amounts of gold, silver and lead also being extracted.
		Because of the very hard host rock, this pit has much steeper sides than other open pit copper mines in the southwest area.The pit covers an area of 300 acres, and is 900 feet deep.
		This dump material, along with thelarge open hole of the pit, is considered an ecological disaster by many, but, for its time, Phelps Dodge Corporation was withinfederal guide lines on mining codes.
	www.therfcc.org /lavender-pit-100370.html (209 words)

	Bisbee, Arizona - Biocrawler definition:Bisbee, Arizona - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1917, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the heavy copper demand due to World War I.
		By 1950, boom times were over and the population of the City of Bisbee had dropped to less than 6,000, but the introduction of strip mining and continued underground work would see the town escape the fate of many of its early contemporaries.
		The Lavender Pit is an inactive open pit mine site in the center of the city.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Bisbee,_Arizona (1011 words)

	Lavender Pit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lavender Pit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		They extracted 46 million tons of (The surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits) overburden before reaching the valuable (A metal-bearing mineral valuable enough to be mined) ore.
		Vast tonnage of dump rock is spread all around Bisbee and the southeastern (additional info and facts about Mule Mountains) Mule Mountains area.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lavender_pit.htm (245 words)

	USAR ProCup - Where Racing's Past, Present, and Future Collide!
		Lavender, driver of the No. 84 H&R Block Ford, and Jay Fogleman, driver of the No. 4 Lucas Oil Ford, waged a spirited battle for the lead over the final 50 laps of the 250-lap event.
		Lavender checked out briefly over the next 20 laps, but a caution on Lap 187 brought Fogleman back to his bumper.
		Lavender and McFarland both led 88 laps and spilt the Greased Lighting "Blast the Pack" Award for leading the most laps.
	www.usarprocup.com /view_article.asp?id=1040 (1480 words)

	Lavender Pit - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Lavender Pit - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This page was last modified 03:00, 5 Jun 2005.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Lavender Pit contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lavender_Pit (250 words)

	ARIZONA WRITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Lavender pit is unlike other porphyry copper deposits in Arizona in that the pit is in a fluidized breccia pipe, and is Nevadan (130 Ma), not Laramide, in age.
		Unfortunately, we are unable to visit the floor of the pit and after briefly looking at the huge cyanide heap-leach pads, had to content ourselves with samples from the core-shed.
		In the pit, several stops were made to compare different styles of mineralization present in the potassically altered quartz monzonite and porphyritic quartz monzonite intrusives.
	www.eps.mcgill.ca /~seg/Arizona/arizona_write.htm (1792 words)

	Mad about Bisbee, AZ story: Try slowing down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An unoccupied police car is parked at the Lavender Pit in a half-baked attempt to deter speeding drivers.
		People have been struck by vehicles (and even died from their injuries) right on our main drag, but that has never proven to be sufficient cause for county employees, residents and even our own police to take the downtown 15 mph speed limit seriously.
		Once you get past the pit there is a rise in the road that prevents drivers trying to pull out from the Lowell area from seeing oncoming cars until they are quite close.
	www.sliceobisbee.com /UBisMad/TrySlowingDown.html (676 words)

	Open-pit mining -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term is used to differentiate this form of (The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth) mining from extractive methods that require tunneling into the earth.
		When they are no longer productive for extraction of material, open-pit mines are sometimes converted to (A low area that has been filled in) landfills for disposal of solid wastes.
		However, some form of water control is usually required to keep the mine pit from becoming a (A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land) lake.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Op/Open-pit_mining.htm (611 words)

	Pit Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I love how this story tells the story of three different chaacters lives and the lives of their friends and family.
		"Cherries and Cherry Pits" continues to be a favorite of mine- your minds eye can relish on the fresh, colorful drawings whilst you read of the simple pleasures derived from a yummy little fruit.
		She also shows you the way out of "the Pit" you may be in.
	www.booksunderreview.com /Games/Card_Games/Special_Decks/Pit/Pit_4.html (1382 words)

	Open-pit mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The El Chino mine located nearSilver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine
		Lavender Pit – copper mine in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
		Berkeley Pit - former copper mine in Butte, Montana, United States; now a toxic lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open-pit_mining (449 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lavender Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The El Chino mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Open-pit mining refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow.
		Phelps Dodge Corporation (NYSE: PD) was founded in 1834 by Anson Greene Phelps and William E. Dodge.
		Bisbee Blue is the nickname given to turquoise that comes from copper mines located in the vicinity of Bisbee, Arizona.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lavender-Pit (541 words)

	pit
		A pit is any high walled depression in the ground, it can refer to a quarry or (in Britain) a coal mine.
		There is also a card game called pit.
		In a marching band, the section which does not march, usually consisting of xylophone, other mallet instruments, and/or timpani and suspended cymbal, is called the percussion pit (pit for short).
	www.fact-library.com /pit.html (73 words)

	The Bisbee Marquee - news, reviews, art, events, history, business and entertainment in Bisbee, Arizona
		These magma intrusions created the granite formations at Juniper Flats and the remaining solid granite portion of Sacramento Hill at the edge of the Lavender Pit.
		Since the origin of the ore fluids was apparently around the Sacramento Hill intrusion, the richest ore bodies were developed in the immediate vicinity of the south side of Sacramento Hill and in radiating, spoke-like formations which occurred as the fluids flowed through minor faults in the limestone layers to the south.
		For this reason the pit is located where it is and the underground workings are spread out so their slopes and drifts can follow the radiating ore-bodies.
	www.bisbeemarquee.com /www/0401/003_1.php (796 words)

	Days of yore and ore
		In 1953, deciding that underground mines were no longer efficient, it started digging the Lavender Pit, eventually leaving a hole 950 feet deep over 300 acres.
		Arizona 80 runs right through the pit, around the edge, and there are better views of the Lavender Pit than of any other open-pit mine in the state.
		The pit is 1.5 by 2.5 miles and a quarter-mile deep, and if it doesn't have the romance of the Lavender Pit, it has the advantage, as far as the economy goes, of being an active site.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/travel/articles/0529mining0529.html (2093 words)

	Lavender Pit Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Richard Ducote: Bisbee set to 'star' in TV movie production \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The Lavender Pit alongside state Highway 80 will serve as a set for some of the action.
		It's been three decades since copper ore was hauled out of the pit.
		Only a trickle of copper - a few million pounds a year - now comes out of Bisbee annually as part of a limited operation to leach metal from old stockpiles of ore. Globally, PD pumps out about 2.12 billion pounds of the red metal a year.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/ducote/43634.php (612 words)

	Danehy (September 21 - September 27, 1995)
		Both grew up around the copper industry, with Bisbee built around the massive Lavender Pit mine and Douglas springing up alongside the giant copper smelter in the Sulphur Springs Valley.
		Both towns were rough-and-tumble at the start of the 20th century, populated by tough men who did dirty work, lived hard and often died young.
		The economic roof fell in on Bisbee in 1974 when the Pit was closed.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/09-21-95/danehy.htm (1044 words)

	eLibrary Project : Open-pit mine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The approval was for an open pit mine using a heap leach process with a carbon adsorption circuit to produce gold.
		QCM operates an open pit mine and related facilities, along with a railway linking the mine to the harbour on Quebec's North Shore.
		Operations at Glencairn's second mine, the Bellavista open pit mine in Costa Rica, are conducted by a mining contractor.
	elibraryproject.com /info/open-pit_mine.html (893 words)

	Encyclopedia: Open pit mining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Read about Open-pit mining at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Open-pit mining and learn about Open-pit mining here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Open-pit mining refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or
		The term is used to differentiate this form of
		Gravel and stone (stone refers to bedrock, while gravel is unconsolidated material, as found in
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Open_pit_mine (314 words)

	Lavender Pomeranians on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Read about lavender pomeranians in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
		Lavender, jasmine, nicotiana and a huge range of other scented plants and shrubs in our online catalogue.
		Lavender essential oil and wide range of pure essential oils, carrier oils, massage blends and vaporizing oils.
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	Arizona Mining Association :: AZ Cu Mining Operations :: Phelps Dodge Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Tohono operations, located on land leased from the Tohono O'Odham Nation, consists of an SX-EW plant fed by a test open pit and heap leach.
		Although mining was suspended in July 1997, leaching of existing heaps continued until February 1999.
		The company's Copper Queen mine consists of a small dump leaching and precipitation operation at the depleted Lavender pit.
	www.azcu.org /azcumining/phelpsdodge.html (1182 words)

	Newminesinfo.htm
		Overlooking the New Cornelia Pit in Ajo, AZ.
		The Bisbee Lavender Pit Mine, near Bisbee, Arizona, is one of the more famous of the American mines because Bisbee turquoise was one of the first put onto the market.
		This turquoise is a by-product of the large open pit Chino copper mine east of Silver City, New Mexico in Grant County.
	www.zianet.com /roxrite/rWr/newmines.htm (2056 words)

	Bisbee. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Memorial to SW, which commemorates the visit (1540) of Francisco Coronado.
		Historic town of Tombstone 20 mi/32 km NNW; Lavender Pit (open-pit copper mine) and Copper Queen underground mine to SE and NW, tourist attraction; several ghost towns in area.
		Capital city or county seat is shown by the symbol
	www.bartleby.com /69/57/B06757.html (149 words)

	Arizona
		AZ-15 Malachite - Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Arizona $25; This is one of the few malachites I've seen from Lavender Pit.
		As would be expected, since the mining was so close to surface level, it has a slightly weathered appearance lacking the velvet look of AZ-9.
		AZ-17 Selenite and Copper - Mission Pit, Tucson, Arizona $90; This is one of the showiest specimens of this classic that I've seen.
	www.kcminerals.com /arizona.htm (1091 words)

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