Aerial view of Ajo
| dc.date | 1948? | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:55:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T09:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:55:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T09:27:27Z | |
| dc.identifier | libimagesNMHFM277 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11124/8700 | |
| dc.description | Aerial view - Ajo, Arizona May 1948 (Taken by Foley Bros.). | |
| dc.description | Date scanned: 2001-04-03. | |
| dc.description | Identifier: NMHFM-277. | |
| dc.description | Related photographs: NMHFM-24, NMHFM-25, NMHFM-27, NMHFM-28, NMHFM-29, NMHFM-30, NMHFM-276. | |
| dc.description | Unmounted; text on verso. | |
| dc.description | Held in the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Aerial view of Ajo smelter and tailings. 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. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by the Colorado State Library, the regional library systems of Colorado, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado School of Mines. Arthur Lakes Library | |
| dc.rights | Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.html | |
| dc.subject | Phelps Dodge Mining Company | |
| dc.subject | Copper mines and mining | |
| dc.subject | Copper ore processing plants | |
| dc.subject | Mine tailings | |
| dc.title | Aerial view of Ajo | |
| dc.type | StillImage | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Foley Brothers | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Colorado Digitization Project | |
| dc.contributor.institution | National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum | |
| dc.contributor.institution | Phelps Dodge Corporation |
