Company announces 12 local employees will graduate from 3-year apprentice program at Central Arizona College in December Releases Q3 2020 Scorecard, showing over 70% of workforce from Copper Triangle area and more than 65% of spending this year with Arizona vendors and suppliers Superior, Ariz. (November 17, 2020) – Following …
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Second Generation Miners: Mark Albertson
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 …
Read More »National Bank of Arizona® helps Gila County businesses obtain more than $7,000,000 in PPP funding.
PHOENIX, Arizona; October 26, 2020 – National Bank of Arizona has announced today that it has helped 103 businesses in Gila County obtain $7,304,900 in funding through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). This funding helped save 1,018 jobs from the far-reaching impacts of COVID-19. “The Paycheck Protection Program provided tremendous …
Read More »Investing Creatively and on the Cheap
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. …
Read More »Essential Business Lessons from Apache Skateboard Entrepreneur Douglas Miles Jr.
Douglas Miles Jr. is a professional skateboarder, owner of the film production company Indellica, and a partner and team rider of Apache Skateboards. He has produced video and photo content for Apache Skateboards and now owns and operates Indellica to help other businesses with film production and branding. He has …
Read More »Keeping Museums from becoming COVID Casualties
How do museums maintain relevance and cover operating expenses when patrons are not allowed inside their buildings? When the coronavirus hit, businesses around the world were forced to close to prevent the spread of the disease. Public spaces like museums were included in the closures and about 85,000 institutions (90% …
Read More »Local Real Estate Market Booms Despite Pandemic
The way the world does business has changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes how real estate agents and brokers approach the business of marketing and selling houses, even renting them. Gone – at least for now – are the days of weekly open houses and agents …
Read More »Who’s Hiring in Globe/Miami?
If you are looking for a job in the area, our latest issue posted a range of job openings. Follow the links below for more detail including filling out online applications. If you are an employer who would like to advertise a job opening on our website or FB page, …
Read More »What is mined in the Globe-Miami area?
This is a regular column which attempts to answer frequently asked questions about mining in the area. What is mined in the area and how is it mined? The primary metals mined in our region include copper, smaller amounts of molybdenum, and trace amounts of gold and silver. Many mines …
Read More »Second-Generation Miners – Aimee Mundy-Ellison
“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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