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Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum
Arizona is the country's main
mining state with the biggest value of non-fuel mineral production
and the Department of Mines and Mineral Resources is a
non-regulatory state agency helping with the promotion and
development of the state's mineral resources. The museum honors the
mining industry that assisted in the growth of the state, which has
its beginnings in the first state fair, where the mineral exhibit
would dwarf everything else there. This collection, which is already
considered one of the best in the world, has continued to grow and
get better since then. Every year, more than 23,000 students and
18,000 regular visitors come here to view the magnificent stones,
with mineral collectors and rockhounds from across the globe coming
here to admire and purchase any stones that they can.
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