Cananea

American  

[kan-uh-nee-uh, -ney-uh, kah-nah-ne-ah] / ˌkæn əˈni ə, -ˈneɪ ə, ˌkɑ nɑˈnɛ ɑ /

noun

1. a city in N Mexico: copper mining and smelting.

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Other Word Forms

• Cananean noun

Example Sentences

A strike also interrupted work at the Buenavista open-pit copper mine in the Cananea mining district of the northern state of Sonora from 2007 to 2010.

From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2023

On this date in 1920, Cananea Consolidated Copper Co., the largest American-owned copper company in Sonora, Mexico, closed.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2016

At night the only light comes from the stars, the Mexican mining town of Cananea, and from a border patrol floodlight so intense you could sit on your porch and read by the glow.

From Slate • May 6, 2013

Before the strike, Cananea produced between 35 percent and 40 percent of Mexico’s copper.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2010

You don't have to chop it out with chisels, like that native copper around the Great Lakes; and you don't have to go underground and do timbering like they do around Bisbee and Cananea.

From Rimrock Jones by Coolidge, Dane