奥拉AURA

这个洞位于图森市以南30英里处。
This hole is about 30 miles south of Tucson.

也许西内能看出地质学方面的意义。但这只是空洞，如果另一颗流星朝我们飞来，我希望它正好落在我们挖的洞里。这个流星我能理解：这是我们的命运。这个洞是我们造成的，没有理由这样做——除了一个荒谬的想法，就是照亮夜晚，发送比我们喊叫更快的信号。铜是对赋予我们生命的大自然的逃避。
Maybe Sine can see the point of this – geology and all that. But what this is is just emptiness, and if another meteor comes our way, I hope it lands right smack in this hole we’ve made. The meteor I can understand: it’s our fate. This hole is something we did and there was no reason for it – except the absurd idea to light up the night and send signals farther than we can shout. Copper is a cop-out from nature that gave us life.

露天矿的命名恰如其分，而绿谷的命名则有些滑稽，开车去那里，你会感受到讽刺意味的。走布道路(它与往西一点点的I-19号公路平行)，从那个沙漠的白鸽子(天主教的任务)出发，彷佛从图森的人间天堂来到了类似人间地狱的地方，因为核导弹的发射台近在咫尺，搞不好什么时候会发射。
When driving to this aptly named open-pit in the comically named Green Valley, you can grasp the irony by approaching via Mission Road (that parallels I-19 a trifle west of it) starting from the White Dove of the Desert (a Catholic mission) , as if heading from Tucson’s heaven on earth to this little bit of hell that rubs shoulders with the nuclear missile launch pad next door that could have done a number anytime of the day or night on some other random locale.

太多诗情画意了。只需要事实，女士，就事实，女士，好吧。我现在来念一下美国熔炼公司亚萨克的信条：
Enough poetry. Just the facts ma'am, nothing but the facts, ma'am. Okay. I’m reading from the gospel according to Asarco:

矿山旅游和地球科学中心(宣传手册，1998年)：
Mine Tours and Earth Science Center (promotional brochure, 1998):

"亚萨克矿产探索中心露天矿山之旅让游客深入了解一个正在运营的露天铜矿——一天24小时运作，将近1000名亚利桑那州人用现有的最大和最现代化的设备工作，为美国和世界生产铜......
"The Asarco Mineral Discovery Center open-pit mine tour offers visitors an inside look at an operating open-pit copper mine - a 24-hour-a-day operation where nearly 1,000 Arizonans work with the largest and most modern equipment available, producing copper for America and the world...

"亚萨克矿产探索中心提供有关采矿和矿物的第一手展览，从矿床是如何形成的，它们是如何被发现和开采的，到采矿后如何重新开发土地。历史上的和当今的采矿设备陈列在博物馆的地面上......
"The Asarco Mineral Discovery Center offers hands-on exhibits about mining and minerals, from how ore deposits are formed and how they are discovered and mined, to how the land is reclaimed after mining... Historic and present-day mining equipment is displayed on the museum grounds...

"亚萨克是全球领先的有色金属综合生产商之一，主要生产铜、铅锌、银、还有一个好像叫钼......
"Asarco is one of the world’s leading integrated producers of nonferrous metals, principally copper, lead zinc, silver, and” moly denim, molibdindin, mo blib blib blib.

西内SINE

对的， 钼。
“molybdenum” mo lib din um,

奥拉AURA

谢谢你，亲爱的。“还生产特殊化学品、矿物和其它工业产品，并提供环境服务。”
Thank you dear, and also produces specialty chemicals, minerals and other industrial products, and provides environmental services.

西内和奥拉SINE and AURA

皮玛矿路以东。
Take Pima Mine Road east.

奥拉AURA

往东走传道路，一直到矿产探索中心。然后， 我完成了。我完成了。这里有一些西内提供的链接，如果你想再深入了解一点的话。(我真搞不懂这怎么会变成旅游景点。也许它是为足球运动员之类的人准备的。)
east from Mission to complete this outing to the mine and Discovery Center. Blib blib blib. I am done. I am done. There are a few links Sine put in here if you want to bang your head into this some more. (How this gets into touristy things to do beats me. Maybe it’s for football players and such.)

●更高的视角看看
●Take me higher

●矿山是我们的错
●Mines are our fault

●制造铜
●Making copper

●亚萨克的使命矿山事实
●Asarco's Mission Mine facts

●亚萨克矿产探索中心 - 概述
●Asarco Mineral Discovery Center - Overview

●时间
●Hours

●十天天气预报
●10 day weather forecast

● 获得书籍
● Get book