Philadelphia Silver and Copper Mining Company was a 19th-century mining corporation chartered in Pennsylvania, April 8, 1864.[1]
The company owned mining properties along theColorado River in theLower Colorado River Valley, inCalifornia andArizona Territory in the 1860s. The company involved eastern financiers including Thomas Tilden, Adolph Hugel, John Potter, William Reich, Alphonso F. Tilden, and Robert Smith.[2]
Its managing director was Alphonso F. Tilden, based inSan Francisco.[3]
The company mining properties weresilver mines inEl Dorado Canyon in theColorado Mining District of what was thenArizona Territory and after 1869Lincoln County, Nevada; andcopper mine in the Freeman Mining District inSan Bernardino County, California across the river fromAubrey Landing.[3][4]: 44
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