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To: SandRat

Silver City, NM is not mined out yet either.

When I left that town in 1986 copper was about 47 cents per lb. about production cost.


19 posted on 02/26/2017 3:47:45 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

Every time Silver City closed a mine the economy of Farmington NM would crash. There were lots of steel fabrication and machine shops that did repair on mine equipment shipped in from Silver City.

As I revisited there back in 1986, there were caravans of people leaving the 4-Corners because the jobs had vanished.
Both steel fabrication shops I had worked for in the 1970s had also closed.


24 posted on 02/26/2017 4:14:58 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (GAY MARRIAGE- Like declaring a dog's tail to be a leg giving a dog 5 legs. But it is still a tail!)
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To: Texas Fossil

COCHISE COUNT next to NM has several more mines tha could still yeild lots of Copper.


28 posted on 02/26/2017 4:20:46 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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