Prevention of and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents (PRSBI) Course Description

---

idge scene. Today, there
isn't much left
of the operation.
Large black slag piles are
gradually bein
Performance Level
g hauled away from   

Grant County's driveways

• and highways. The "Big Ditch" is filled w
• ith illegally dumped trash. Rusted pipes protrude from the ground. Twisted iron lies with scattered, broken brick. The burned foundation of the old Continental Ore and Chemic
• al Co. fluorspar concen- tratorfrom Wold War II rests on the ruins of the old Silver City Reduction Works. A road toward the sewer plant south of town leads right by the old operation. There's n
• ot much to see. There are the tailings, the slag, and with some imagination, there's the old Silver City smelter. The Silver City Smelter Was Big Operation Reduction Works South of Town Once Employed More Than 200 Men and Women Sit of 1913 Silent Movie By RICHARD PETERS
• Course methodology includes classroom presentations, field laboratories, and practical exercises

ON Daily Press

• Writer Ore was hand-picked from steam powered conveyer belts by men - and children. The equipment was "the best known to metallurgical science." While families depended on the operation for a livelihood. And in 1913,
• a silent movie was filmed at the site by a prominent California movie company which later merged with Warner Brothers. It was the Silver City Reduction
• Works, the pride of Silver City and which fro a brief time was a boon to the economy, making mining in the Grant County possible in those early years. Some 60 years later, there is nothing left of the ope
• ration. The Silver City Reduction Works went by several names before it was finally
• scaped. It was originally build by the Hearst family to handle gold and silver ores hauled from their Pinos Altos mines. This were difficult years for the ope
• ration, and a final crunch came in 1902. The plans was handling just about every ore it could get - custom smelting included. And that meant copper was amo
• ng those ores. Copper, in fact, was such a vital part of the smelter's daily operations that depressed copper market conditions forced a closure of the smelter. That was in April. On June 30, 30, 1903, the plant caught
• fire and was leveled. Silver City's hopes were dashed since the whole operation was going to be sold and once again put into productions. The sale took place anyway, and Comanche Mining Smelting Co. was the new owner. The reduction works were build on a larger scale. In 1906, the new
• spaper had this to say: "The big red building in which this ponderous machinery is housed is 72 feet high and is by far the most imposing structure in theses parts, being 63 feet in width and 122 fee
• Pre-Attack/Imminent Attack Countermeasures, Issues and Responsest long. "A metallic conveyer will carry the ore from the bins to the large crusher, from whence it will be elevated... the oversize of this going
• to the pickin provides information on the importance of conducting a risk analysis based on asset, threat, and vulnerability assessments to assist in comparing and selecting effective countermeasures.
• g belt were boys and men will be employed to pick out the different classes of ore that is to go direct to the smelter. "The water for the mill will be pump

ed from the

arroyo, which pas

Three field laboratories allow students to observe and handle, when possible, explosives and their resulting damage. Sessions include:

• ses through Silver City and
• past the smelter... The little Silver City,
• Pinos Altos &amp
• ; Mogollon railroad hauled ore to this smelte

r, but only briefly. Comanche was absorbed by Savannah Copper Company which operated the plant for a short time. Even at first, Savannah was caught up in the dream that first captured the Hearst family, and later the Comanche Co. Savannah made some improvement at the plan, and the smelter could allegedly handle between 250 and 300 tons or ore per day. Like Comanche, Savannah was also interested in buying ores from small mi

ning operat

ions. Again, the   

Independent - t

he weekly predece

ssor to the Daily Press - had this to say in 1908: "The main ore supply will be drawn from the company's mines, but custom ore will be purchased and fair and square treatment

• accorded the miner," it said. Th
• e whole operation - like the narrow
• -gauge railro
• ad - never really panned out. The operation was idle for several years unti

l 1913. Then, Romaine Fielding and the Lubin Motion Picture Company came