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The Ajo Copper News is a weekly community newspaper serving western Pima County, Arizona. It has been published since 1916 in Ajo, Arizona. History.
The New Cornelia mine is a currently inactive open-pit copper mine in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It was the only productive mine in the Ajo mining district, and is located just outside the town of Ajo, which was built as a company town to serve the New Cornelia mines. The roughly circular pit is one and a half miles across at its ...
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All copper mining was done by underground methods until the early 20th century. After the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah successfully mined a large low-grade copper deposit from a large open pit, the same technique was applied to Arizona's porphyry copper deposits. Arizona's first open pit copper mine opened at Ajo in 1917.
The colorful new development was created in the small Arizona town of Ajo for Border Patrol personnel, offering them brand-new homes for rent ranging from 1,276 to 1,570 square feet.
New Cornelia Copper Company in Ajo, 1922 Ajo and the New Cornelia mine. NASA photo. Ajo (/ ˈ ɑː h oʊ / AH-hoh) is an unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It is the closest community to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The population was 3,039 at the 2020 census.
A 32-year-old man died Monday while he was attempting to cross a freeway in Orange County after apparently trying to steal copper piping from a local business.
Southern Copper, one of Peru's largest copper producers, said on Thursday it has started legal actions to oust "illegal miners" that are occupying and slowing development of one of its key projects.