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Show OPERATION OF HUGE COPPER PROJECT NEARS MORENCI, Arizona An open pit copper mine, one of the largest larg-est privately financed development develop-ment projects in the nation's history, his-tory, will soon begin full operation. opera-tion. Equipment totaling $34,000,000 will be providedTto move 75,000 tons of material every 24 hours-Of hours-Of this amount, 25,000 tons will be actual copper ore, from which an average of 500,000 pounds of copper will be extracted. Construction for the job includes in-cludes a smoke stack 602 feet high; a power plant, smelter, mill, electric carpenter and machine shops and a warehouse. Operations have been set for Nov. 1, six months ahead of schedule. By December 1 the mine will be in full operation, producing 6,250 tons of copper per month. o |