[Jewelry making - Article 00044] - Re: [Orchid] Sideatrips from Tucson?

[Lee Einer]

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    If you want to check out a beautiful town that's loaded with
    galleries, take a trip southeast from Tucson to a town called
    Bisbee. Bisbee, AZ is an old copper mining town up in the hills that
    was re-populated by artists, poets and other  furry creatures back
    in the 1970s, when the copper mines closed and much of the town was
    vacated. Between the culture and the hilly terrain it is much like a
    miniature San Francisco. 

    Some very gemmy copper minerals (like chatoyant malachite and
    azurite, Bisbee Blue Turquoise, and gem chrysacolla) used to be
    scavenged from the mine tailings back in the day, but Phelps-Dodge
    has put an end to this practice and Bisbee is no longer the lapidary
    source that it once was. Still, it's highly worthwhile. 

    If you do travel to Bisbee, pay a visit to Will Estavillo's gallery
    while you are there- Will is a great guy and a fellow Orchidian, and
    you will be glad that you dropped in. 

Lee Einer


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