Tuscon, AZ - Copper Mine Tour

This morning, we toured the nearby ASARCO Copper Mine. This is an open-pit mine located about 20 miles south of Tuscon. It was quite interesting. The tour guide took us up to the pit in a bus and then inside the mill where the ore is broken into smaller pieces as part of the extraction process.

Everything here is on a VERY BIG SCALE. The open pit is huge. Massive trucks transport rock from the pits to the crushers. Each of these trucks cost millions of dollars, and their 11-foot tires cost about $80,000 each.

After the copper mine tour, we had lunch in nearby Sahuarita and then drove just a few miles to the Titan II Missile site in Green Valley, AZ.