Er, how bad a mess can these people make! It's a mining town which is actually quite nice, it's just the mine. It's a copper, lead, zinc and silver mine all in one with smelters for the lead and copper. There are two huge smelting chimneys that are belching out stuff all over the desert behind the mine. There are a few redeeming qualities, the heat from the lead smelter drives the power generators for the whole mine and 80% of the fumes (sulphur dioxide) from the copper smelter are recycled into sulphuric acid, what's wrong with doing the whole 100%? They're also planting some trees just to prove how green they are. I didn't take any pictures here at all.

Accommodation - Sunset Caravan Park. OK nothing special.

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