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Postby Morsecode » Mon Oct 22, 2012 3:26 pm

Funny how you can live someplace for years and not know the history. Darned if I'd ever heard of these local mining operations. And here I thought Bristol was only famous for ESPN.

I've crossed over Coppermine Brook bridge about a million times, and do maintainance at a tennis club called CopperLedges...never put two & two together 8-)

http://geology.com/articles/higley-copper-mining.shtml
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Re: Local Copper Mine

Postby joeinnj » Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:54 pm

I live on Penny Lane but hope to move to Bucks County some day.
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Re: Local Copper Mine

Postby Mr Paradise » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:10 pm

My granddaddy ran moonshine down copperhead road.
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Re: Local Copper Mine

Postby Sheikh_yer_Bu'Tay » Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:18 am

That is a terrific article, Morsecode! I love reading history about old colonial coins and the first coins of our nation when it was young. Ditto on the geology lesson. Great stuff! Thanks.
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Re: Local Copper Mine

Postby Diggin4copper » Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:27 am

Ahh, the Holy Grail of detecting... to find a Higley copper... I met a guy once who found one ...
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Re: Local Copper Mine

Postby CuNation1 » Sat Oct 27, 2012 5:25 pm

Interesting article, Morsecode. The region where I grew up in MI, was one of the country's top copper producer regions (of the early 1900s), so had a lot of defunct mines nearby, and a lot of mining history in the area.
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