About 900 jobs to be created in Mesa County

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About 900 jobs to be created in Mesa County

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (

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) — A collaborative effort between the Grand Junction Economic Partnership and other Colorado agencies will bring a mining industry hub to Grand Junction.

Morgan Mining will make a new complex on 32 Road, where the old Halliburton plant used to be in Clifton.

Here’s what Grand Junction Economic Partnership Executive Director Curtis Englehart said what might’ve swayed them to come to Grand Junction instead of their other option: Knoxville, Tennessee.

“There was multiple things in my opinion that tipped the scale for them,” said Englehart. “We do have a rich history in the mining and oil and gas industry in our community… we’ve had great buy in from the community.”

Overall, the project should create just short of 900 jobs in Grand Junction over an eight-year *******, and those jobs come with an aveage wage of a little over $92,000 annually.

That wage is 167 percent of the average annual wage in Mesa County, so it should be enough to live comfortably.

Englehart also said that the mining campus will serve as a central command for operations in Western Colorado.

“It’ll be more of a hub in Mesa County, an energy hub, so to speak,” Englehart said. “They will have crews that will be assigned to projects that are outside of the area, they will have a maintenance line as well, so where they’re maintaining equipment and whatever that looks like from a workforce standpoint, they’ll have management and leadership positions as well. It really is a hub for the energy industry.”

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