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The Aardvark AMCS Mk4 is a British-made mine flail vehicle built by Aardvark Clear Mine Ltd of Dumfries, Scotland.. The AMCS flail system was developed in Aberdeenshire by David Macwatt of Elgin, Scotland and George Sellar & Son of Huntly (system designers were James (Barney) Hepburn, Pat McRobbie and Alistair Birnie) with the cooperation of Ford Motor Co, Basildon.
The Mineral Park mine is a large open-pit copper mine located in the Cerbat Mountains, 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona (in the southwestern United States). A 2013 report said that Mineral Park has an estimated reserves of 389 million t (383 million long tons; 429 million short tons) of ore grading 0.14% copper and 31 million oz (1.9 ...
Its predecessor, the Planet Copper Mining Co., had taken over the mine in 1902. [4] By 1916, the Planet Copper Mine was producing 3,929,000 lbs. of copper a year; it ranked as the 25th most productive copper mine in the United States. [6] By 1920, the company's stock assets amounted to $4 million at $5 a share.
The mine was closed by 1905, and most other mining efforts in the area had stopped by 1910. In the late 1880s cattle and sheep ranches were being established wherever streams provided adequate water to support a herd, but recurring drought and overpopulation of herd animals soon led to water shortages, and the cattle ranchers were forced to ...
By 1907, the C&A was the fourth-most productive copper mine in Arizona, and ran its own smelter in Douglas, Arizona. [5] Phelps Dodge started mining the Lavender open pit in the early 1950s. [4] The Lavender pit closed in 1974. The Copper Queen mine, Bisbee's first working mine, was also its last.
Mammoth was founded c. 1872 as Mammoth Camp, serving the nearby Mammoth Mine. Until 2003, when it closed, Mammoth served as a bedroom community for the nearby San Manuel mine. [citation needed] The nearby ghost town of Copper Creek is a popular local attraction. Minerals from the old Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine are found in all major mineral ...
In 1989, Asarco purchased the old BS&K Mine, which is located near the original Silverbell site, about a mile (1.6 km) east of the Silver Bell Cemetery in Ironwood Forest. Today, a few BS&K buildings remain standing, along with a few old mine shafts and some wrecked vehicles. [5]
Trigo Mountains Wilderness is a 30,300-acre (12,262 ha) wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona and was established in 1990. [2] It is located 30 miles (48 km) north of Yuma east of the Colorado River in an area called the Lower Colorado River Valley.