| "They were good and decent men, these miners: ready to do the most precarious work and at dangerous levels beneath the earth. They worked together and some died together. In Tafoya’s eyes, they were heroes in the true sense of the word because of the sacrifices made in the name of 'Mother Magma'.” |
| About the Author Onofre “Taffy” Tafoya, was born during the Great Depression. The eldest of five siblings, he enlisted in the US Navy at the young age of 15. He was stationed at the submarine base at Pearl Harbor, where he was part of the relief crew on different submarines until World War II ended. “I loved the Navy. I had never eaten so good or dressed as warm,” Tafoya recollects. He was discharged at the age of 18, and soon after he married and had six children, later adopting two more. He worked in a Phoenix brickyard in the early 1950s, before discovering his true passion for the “underground life” of mining, when he moved to San Manuel, an emerging mining town, built to house the miners and their families. His commitment to mining, hard work ethic, and love for the “best of people,” gives birth to a written testament— Mother Magma. He currently resides in Mammoth, Arizona. |

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| Read a short comment about Mother Magma published in the Arizona Daily Star Mining History News Magma Copper Company Underground Mine near San Manuel, Arizona |


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