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Around Miami (Images of America)

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All the way through the late 1800s, prospectors searching for gold, silver, and copper started to settle around the Pinal Mountains area in Miami. By 1918, several mining companies had established roots and contributed to the town’s booming growth. The community established housing, schools, a hospital, and a town government, and the population grew to 5,000. Soon, Miami achieved recognition as one of the crucial main mining towns in the state, together with neighboring Globe, Jerome, Morenci, Superior, Ajo, and Ray-Sonora. The new mining opportunities brought immigrants from all over the world to settle in the area and ultimately turned Arizona into a leading contributor to the copper industry. Even supposing mining’s hold on the local economy has changed through the years, today a minimum of 20 percent of Miami-area employment is centered around copper mining, which remains close to the heart of the first hardy miners’ descendants.

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