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<\/a>\nYou would think there wouldn’t be much to do in the desert, but like me you’d be wrong. Coming into town is was very hard to miss the sign for the ASARCO Mineral Mine Tour.
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<\/a>\nFurther wandering the Arizona State Tourism Board I found out during the summer the tours are held every Saturday. It wasn’t until I got there however that I found out that the last tour leaves at 3:30PM.\u00a0The site is open however until 5PM, but seeing as how I had missed the tour I had to settle for the secondary greeters.
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<\/a>\nI don’t know what the deal with these guys were, but they were wondering the grounds freely.<\/p>\n
ASARCO stands for American Smelting and Refining Company. It is a\u00a0relatively\u00a0established\u00a0company (started in 1899), but despite the meaning\u00a0behind the acronym, it is anything but American. The land itself is technically not American, it belongs to the Tohono O’ohodam Indian Reservation. The company used be all American owned, but in 1975 it changed it’s official name to just\u00a0ASARCO when it was acquired by Grupo Mexico, it is now a 49% Mexican owned company. I am going to start out this blog post by saying that I realize that Arizona has had a lot of difficulties lately. Between a massive state budget cut and controversial legislation the state of Arizona tourism has been reeling. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[90,94,547,652,727,885,897,934],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekend-travel","tag-arizona","tag-asarco","tag-mine","tag-pima","tag-sahuarita","tag-tour","tag-travel","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9694,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/9694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpedroza.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI didn’t get to go on the tour but I did walk the grounds a bit. Walking across the grounds you will find various pieces of mining equipment. Some of these items are new and some of them were old. Releasing my inner two yearold I gravitated towards the big truck.
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\nI say this truck is big, but\u00a0it is really hard to\u00a0understand how big this truck is without a point of reference.
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\nInside the museum you will find various displays and videos describing the process of copper mining. Being\u00a0one of the largest copper mining operations in the US, it is\u00a0kind of interesting. I wouldn’t call it a deal breaker\u00a0to go to Sahaurita, but if your\u00a0passing by and you have the time it could be a fun few hours.\u00a0It is free to go inside the museum and walk the grounds, but the tour costs $8. For more information visit their website at http:\/\/www.asarco.com\/AMDC\/home.html<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"