“If it stays warmer than normal, like the weather service predicts, I‘ll have fairly good sales in January,” says Mike Shirley, owner of Golden Hills Nursery & Feed in Globe. According to Mike, the mild climate makes this a good time to plant bulbs, shrubs and trees however, the great …
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Frank Molina Superintendent, Arizona Legacy Assets BHP Frank Molina began his career in mining as a laborer while he was still in his teens. 40 years later, he is the Superintendent of Arizona Legacy Assets for BHP. “A good day at work is when we’ve managed to complete a project …
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Justice of the Peace is best known in popular culture as the officiant at a courthouse wedding. A civil marriage ceremony. Simple, quick and legal. Jordan Reardon, Justice of the Peace for Gila County has married 60 couples since taking office. The other 5800 cases he presided over in his …
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Gail Florez is an administrator for the Surface Operations and Maintenance at Resolution Mine in Superior. She has provided essential support to the mining operation since 2008, working in the environmental and safety departments prior to her current job. “Surface is the busiest. It’s non-stop. I support a big …
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Mark Albertsen, Smelter Manager and Rick Albertsen, Electrical Maintenance Supervisor Hot metal flows and gasses are processed at Freeport-McMoRan’s smelter in Miami. Smelter Manager Mark Albertsen loves it here. “I always told my wife that I would love to finish my career at the smelter,” he says. After 41 years …
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Many folks one meets in Globe-Miami were born and raised here. Many moved somewhere else for a while and came back. There are folks here for short-term work and the “strange ones” who want to stay. “I came up here because I found a cheap house,” says Corey Busboom, 41. …
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Randy Seppala, 65, a career-long mining engineer, is the Operations and Maintenance Manager at Resolution Copper in Superior. During his tenure at Resolution, he’s overseen numerous projects, including sinking the Number 10 shaft. Today, he oversees surface and underground operations and maintenance with two huge responsibilities: * Maintaining existing and …
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“We do the same thing every day,” says Wilbur Benally III, “you can’t forget what you are doing.” It’s one of the things he likes about his work as an Operator Trainee at the anode plant in Miami, AZ. There, copper is poured into concrete molds to create slabs 4 …
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What do you do? “My days are never the same,” Dennis says, “which is awesome.” Dennis Palmer, 36, is the Operations Support Superintendent at the Pinto Valley MIne. He supervises 10 supervisors and oversees departments that include fleet and facilities, tailings operations, SX/EW and leaching operations and the assay lab. …
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“This is what I’m meant to do,” according to Aimee Mundy-Ellison. In 1924, Hopkin Williams worked underground at the Old Dominion mine. 100 years later, his great granddaughter Aimee Mundy-Ellison works as Principal for Health Safety Environment at BHP in Miami. Responsible for fostering a health and safety culture, …
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