Beyond a gate was a hill as tall as a high-rise building — turned into a dump for the Morenci mine in the 1930s. Somewhere underneath the detritus was the town, buried and abandoned. I texted a ...

at the mine or in town, is in a floodplain hemmed by cliffs. Down Chase Creek is where Lunt’s friend Tammie McWhinney greets visitors in an old brick storefront that serves as the Greenlee County ...

MORENCI, Ariz. — The night crew returned ... serving as a reminder that much of the infrastructure here, at the mine or in town, is in a floodplain hemmed by cliffs. Down Chase Creek is where ...