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 1911, William C. Greene of the Greene Cattle Co. and the Greene Cananea Copper Co. died after being thrown from a buggy.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 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

The timing — on the same day as the Cananea action — was a coincidence, he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2010

And before thei ware broughte into Cananea by Iosua, his substitute, ouercame with strong hande, one and thirty kinges.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard