Friday was a rest day. We leave for Socorro tomorrow, July 9. So, today we tried to get some work done and get ready to move out in the morning. We did take time to go see the Santa Rita Open Pit Copper mine--it also seems to be the Chino Open Pit Copper mine--both are identified on the map at the same place and both claim to be the oldest active copper mine in the Southwest! The Native Americans harvested copper here before the Spanish and then the Spanish started taking copper from the area in the 1800s. The site is impressive and rather appalling. The mine is really deep and seems to stretch out forever! It looks like they plan to dig up all the mountains around. At the same time, we saw the Kneeling Nun rock formation on the mountains in the distance.