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Ajo looking west

Colorado Digitization Project
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National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
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Phelps Dodge Corporation
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1950?
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Phelps Dodge Mining Company
 Copper mines and mining
 Copper ore processing plants
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Aerial view of the Ajo smelter site. The Phelps Dodge Mining Company's Ajo Incorporated (PDAI) copper smelter was built in 1950 near the mining town of Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. It was used by Phelps Dodge to test innovative smelting technologies in the 1970s and 1980s, and finally closed in 1985. The smelter was dismantled by 1996.
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