Cananea
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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
On Monday, people in Cananea, a tiny desert town, awoke to see the picket line replaced by federal police officers on guard inside the mine’s fences.
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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