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Memorial Park honors Lordsburg copper mining legacy statue
A bronze miner statue was installed in Lordsburg Memorial Park to honor local workers and miners who toiled in the Pyramid Mountains copper mines. The district's boom bust history includes the 85, Banner, and Atwood mines, with production totaling millions of pounds of copper and ounces of gold and silver from 1904 to 1961.
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Lordsburg
Glenda Greene
Pyramid Mountains
Hidalgo County
New Mexico
Valedon
Ceferino Altuna
Blas Noce
Domingo Saucedo
H. A. Saucedo
Banner
Atwood
Virginia
Pyramid
North Pyramid Peak
Mexican Springs
Shakespeare
W. C. Ralston
San Francisco
Bonney
Waledon
85 Group
Calumet and Arizona Mining Company
Douglas
Arizona
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Phelps Dodge
Oklahoma
Banner Mining Company
Curly Bill Brocius
John Ringo
Billy the Kid
Bonney-Miner’s Chest
Henry Clay-Atwood
Fred Hurd
Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
Hidalgo County Herald
Lordsburg Memorial Park