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Cananea

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[kan-uh-nee-uh, -ney-uh, kah-nah-ne-ah] / ˌkæn əˈni ə, -ˈneɪ ə, ˌkɑ nɑˈnɛ ɑ /

noun

  1. a city in N Mexico: copper mining and smelting.


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A strike also interrupted work at the Buenavista open-pit copper mine in the Cananea mining district of the northern state of Sonora from 2007 to 2010.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

On this date in 1901, the first spike was driven on the Narrow Gauge Railroad of the Greene Consolidated Copper Co. from Naco to the mines in Cananea.

From Washington Times • Jun. 2, 2017

At night the only light comes from the stars, the Mexican mining town of Cananea, and from a border patrol floodlight so intense you could sit on your porch and read by the glow.

From Slate • May 6, 2013

The timing — on the same day as the Cananea action — was a coincidence, he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2010

If you are, their find must be a second Verde or Cananea, or they would never have taken a precaution so extraordinary as a false location.

From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

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