Tyrone (ghost town), New Mexico

For the current community called Tyrone in Grant County, see Tyrone, New Mexico.

Tyrone is a ghost town located in Grant County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.

Tyrone
Ghost town
Tyrone, New Mexico (May 1940).
Country	United States
State	New Mexico
County	Grant
Established	1915
Founded by	Phelps Dodge Corporation

Native Copper specimen from the Tyrone Mine

Description

Tyrone was an elaborately planned community financed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, based on Mediterranean and European styles, designed by well-known architect Bertram Goodhue and built in 1915 at a cost of more than a million dollars. A drop in copper prices in 1921 closed the mines and the town was deserted. The townsite was later destroyed as part of Phelps Dodge's development of the Tyrone open-pit copper mine, which began operation in 1969.

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  Field camp of the 68th Infantry Brigade, 34th Division in Tyrone, NM (May 1918).

See also

• List of ghost towns in New Mexico

Bibliography

• Haggard, C.J., "Reading the landscape: Phelps Dodge's Tyrone, New Mexico, in time and space {mining company town}," Journal of the West. 35:4, 29–39.

External links

• Tyrone ghost town page, with photographs
• Tyrone Mine at Freeport-McMoRan
• Geology of Tyrone Mine