Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) is at the forefront of shaping our community’s future by partnering with local industries and offering programs that provide employers with a steady stream of well-trained, job-ready candidates. As a Career Technical Education District (CTED), CVIT offers high school students from Globe, Hayden-Winkelman, Miami, …
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Women in Mining: Colleen Roche
“We have to be a world-class organization.” Colleen Roche has a big job in a medium-sized company. To stay competitive, her team has to be efficient. As Operations Support Manager for Capstone Mining in Pinto Valley, her mandate is to keep operations focused on producing copper. “Everything that is not …
Read More »Women in Mining: Michelle Montague
“The technology is fascinating!” Michelle Montague looks for minerals in the tall walls of a mining blast area or the dredged dirt from deep drilling. She loves being out in the field, finding the ore that’s core to the mining operation. “It’s like opening a christmas present,” she says. …
Read More »36,000 Tortillas a Week
Tortilla Factory and Restaurant in Mammoth serves up fresh, hand-stretched tortillas. It takes a lot people to make Maria Torres’ hand-stretched tortillas. “It’s a lot of labor” says Torres, the owner of Mi Pueblito Mexican Food and Tortillas Mi Pueblito in Mammoth. “My product, it’s a good quality. I use …
Read More »What is the Ore Cart Trail?
The Ore Cart Trail was initiated several years ago by a group calling themselves the Copper Corridor Economic Development Coalition. Newly formed back in late 2003, the CCEDC conceived of the idea to create a trail which would” increase tourism along this corridor of small mining towns” from Tucson to …
Read More »The Ore Cart Trail
You know that old saying about putting the cart before the horse? Well, actually Cows came first. Then horses. And now Ore Carts. They all represent a large scale public art event intended to draw attention – They Do! And in the cases of the Cow Parade and Painted …
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