Cochise County Arizona Gold Production
Click here for the Principle Gold Producing Districts of the United States Index. Cochise County, third among the goldproducing counties of Arizona, produced approximately 2,723,000 ounces of gold from the beginning of mining in the county in about 1879 to the end of 1959. Of this amount, about 24,275,000 (1,174,408 ounces) was a byproduct of copper ores, mainly from the Bisbee district (Wilson and