Morenci pit Morenci, Arizona (1987)
	Morenci, and especially its dramatic pit where copper is removed by huge trains that are barely discernable in their spiral upwards from the pit floor, lies in eastern Arizona, and has barely escaped from the redoubtable Arizona heritage of company towns that once were entirely owned by major mining companies. Phelps-Dodge owns most of the town of Morenci, but the jobs are held to be good, and the pay is well above minimum wage, which in this relatively economically depressed part of Arizona (far removed from the major cities to the southwest and west), are taken as a good thing.
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