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Copper mine at Ray in Arizona, USA.

Large copper reserves in Arizona are mined by Caving System. Exteriors of a copper mine plant at Ray in Arizona, USA. View of the surface pit above the mine.

Location: Ray Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030417
Haulage tracks running inside a copper mine drift at Ray in Arizona, USA.

View of the main haulage tracks for ore cars inside a copper mine drift at Ray in Arizona, USA. The drifts branch off beneath the ore. A mine worker stands beside an ore car. Another miner climbs a ladder.

Location: Ray Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030418
Historic views of the Copper mining town of Sonora, Arizona.

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.)

Location: Sonora, Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030421
Mine workers at work inside shrinkage stope of a copper mine in Ray, Arizona.

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.

Location: Ray Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030419
Loaded ore cars move on haulage tracks at a copper mine in Ray, Arizona.

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.

Location: Ray Arizona USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030420
Aspects of copper mining in Arizona, United States, with a focus on operation in Ajo Arizona.

The Crystal Palace, Bird Cage Theatre and Tombstone Epitaph office are shown, all in Tombstone Arizona. View of an abandoned silver mine. Animation on map shows marking of the main Copper producing areas of Arizona, such as Jerome, Miami, Globe, Superior, Ray, Morenci, Bisbee, and Ajo. A huge new Cornelia open pit copper mine at Ajo is seen. Churn drill at work in mining. Men in mine field give signals to each other with flags prior to blasting. Large amount of dust is blown as the blast takes place. Giant electric shovels are used to load the ore on trains. The railroad trains distribute the ore to crushers. The electric crushers concentrate the ore. A factory site is also shown.

Location: Arizona United States USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027890
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