A mass of solid copper, whose crystallization is mostly crude. However a few distinct crystals reaching 1.1 cm are present. This specimen is almost completely free of green patina. Weighs 164 grams. 6.1×5.0x 3.3cm from the Walter G. Hubbard collection and Jim Parrish collection. They were rescued from an old fruit crate found in the garage of a family member. Labels (if they ever existed) did not survive, so the specific mine(s) within the Bisbee area that produced the specimens is a matter of speculation.
Hubbard was born in Kansas in 1873, and moved to Bisbee at age 26. He began work in the mines, but spread into a wide variety of entrepreneurial roles in local and out-of-state ventures, including undertaking, livery, automobile sales, grain, land sales, and (of course) mining. He was a stockholder in the Hubbard Mining & Milling Co. (near Joplin, Missouri), and an incorporator in 1916 of the short-lived Bisbee Copper Development & Mining Co. (of which he was treasurer). Concerning this operation 1922 edition of The Mines Handbook notes, [the operation is] idle and mail returned from the former office” and “…the claims are entirely outside of the mineralized area and have little
