The co-producer of the movie, Leonard Freeman, had been in town for several days and had already found the perfect location for the opening scene: a spectacular, lonely tree on the west bank of the Rio Grande River, about 12 miles north of Las Cruces. In the opening scene, which appear...
Cobre Las Cruces is an open pit mine that extracts copper sulphides from the same volcano-sedimentary Paleozoic deposit as the mines of Rio Tinto. The ore is overlain by 150 metres of the tertiary marly formation which behaves as an overconsolidated clay (known as Guadalquivir Blue Marls). A...