Mine workers place wooden boards above heavy timbers of drift inside a copper mine in Ray, Arizona. Miners at work in shrinkage stope. Air drills are used to drill holes in the ceiling of the stope. A miner crushes block of ores beside an angle-braced pony sets above the drifts.
Loaded ore cars pass on haulage tracks through a copper mine drift in Ray, Arizona. The ore cars arrive at the main haulage ways leading to the ore pocket at the shaft. An ore car enters a rotary car dump.
Opening slate mentions Mexican employees of the Ray copper mine and their company town of about 6000 persons. The camera pans over rooftops of the town of Sonoma, where the Mexican workers lived. (Euro-Americans lived 1 mile North in neighboring town of Ray.) The copper-rich hills are seen in the background. Washington Elementary School can be seen during the camera's pan, beginning at TC: 00:20 through the end of the sequence. (Note: These are now Ghost Towns, having been taken over when Kennecott Copper Corporation expanded its Ray open pit operations in 1965. Reportedly, many former residents re-settled in nearby Towns of Kearny, Winkelman, Superior, and Hayden.)
Smoke rises from burning stopes at a copper mine in Jerome, Arizona. Copper ore is mined by the horizontal cut and fill method. Miners shovel broken ore onto chutes running through plank floor in a stope. Cribs are built above ore chutes in the floor. Waste ore is drawn through a chute car and is dumped in the open stope to fill the stope.
Mine workers arrive at a shaft in cars through a tunnel in copper mine in Jerome, Arizona. Trains of railroad cars enter the mine through a tunnel leading to the underground shaft.
A mine worker wet-drilling at a stope of a copper mine in Butte, Montana. Water is sprayed from drills onto stope walls that makes sludge of the cutting and prevents dust.
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