Silver City, NM

We visited Silver City, NM on our way out to Arizona during Thanksgiving week. While we were there, we visited Santa Rita Copper Mine. It's the biggest mine I've ever seen. Maybe a mile and a half across and about 1,600 feet deep, it's one big hole.

Looking across I took this photo of one of those great big trucks with wheels about 15 or 20 feet high that haul ore from the mine up to the processing center. It was nearly a mile away from me at the time I took this photo.

A few minutes later two tucks came around a hill inside the trench. You can get some perspective on the size by seeing them next to the road grater. As we waited for them to go by us, they could easily see us standing on a cliff above them. They honked at us and of course we waved back at them.