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  • Dose of HistorySmall Town Scene
    By Sam Lowe
    March 5, 2014
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    The Mine That Ate an Arizona Town

    MORENCI -- If you ever dug up your mom's garden with a tin scoop shovel and hauled the dirt away in a toy dump truck, you might want to look down into the Morenci Mine and appreciate what grownups can do with real tools.
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