The rise and fall of mining in the Patagonia Mountains

By Clara Migoya /El Inde In a lot on Harshaw Avenue, off-road trucks line up in neat rows. The small town of Patagonia is seeing new activity in the nearby mountains now that South32, an Australian mining company, is running round-the-clock mineral drilling operations at the Hermosa-Taylor mine.  “The Taylor deposit, just by scale, is…

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Arizona job growth: want vs. reality

During the recession, Arizona took a bigger hit than many other states. According to Dr. George Hammond, director of University of Arizona’s Economic and Business Research Center, jobs in the state declined 12 percent while the national average declined at about 6 percent. “The problem is that Arizona has yet to replace those jobs,” Hammond…

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