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Thursday, November 6, 2003
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Back-dropped by a low hill, dusty men and women emerge from a mine entrance, turning off their hard hat lights and taking off their work belts.
Students in UA's department of mining and geological engineering experience the contemporary and often complex side of the mining industry the rest of us never see, by working at a laboratory donated to the UA in 1975.
The San Xavier Mining Laboratory is the only facility of its kind in the United States because of its working vertical shaft and because it is structured much like an operating mine.
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