Bisbee

We went to Bisbee to visit Brooke's sister Amy and check out the town; neither of us had been there before. It's a historic mining town and also a countercultural haven. And, they've had a minor league baseball team for many, many years and have the oldest stadium in use today, though it's been renovated. A very cool place!

Several of us toured the Copper Queen Mine, which produced huge amounts of ore until it closed about 30 years ago. There's also a huge open pit copper mine in town. This pic shows a lode of copper...the green rock...and lots of funky coloration. This picture was taken hundreds of feet underground; you ride a little mine train on the tour.

Here's one of your typical tough ol' hardrock miners; well, OK, it's Brooke. She looks good in a hard hat! The temperature in the mine was about 51 degrees and all of us who took the tour were issued slickers, hard hats, and lights with a battery pack. What a tough job it would be; underground all day, chilly and damp, hard physical work, dangerous, and from what our guide...a retired miner...told us, the pay wasn't great.