Copper Mining in Arizona

Duration: 45 min

Year Published: 1938

Creator: United States Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Silent

Description: Produced by Phelps Dodge corporation. 3-reel film showing open-pit mining methods depicted at Morenci and, Ajo, and Jerome, and underground mining at Bisbee. The open-pit methods include diamond drilling, air drilling and blasting, removal of waste, churn drilling and blasting, and transportation of ore. Underground include tunneling, driving, sinking wings and shafts with a rotary drill, scraping ore into chutes, transportation to ore pockets at the shaft, hoisting to the surface, and transportation to the smelter. School management.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 669.3 Audience level: jh-sh-c-trade-adult Format/cost: 16-si-loan Distributors / rental: Not shown in source

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946