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Freeport-McMoRan Inc. The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine or Santa Rita del Cobre, is an American open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico 15 miles (24 km) east of Silver City. The mine was started as the Chino Copper Company in 1909 by mining engineer John ...
The El Chino is an open-pit copper mine near Silver City, New Mexico. The Santa Rita mine in southwest New Mexico was the first copper mine in what is now the western United States. Spaniards began mining copper there about 1800. The district still produces copper, from the large Chino Mine open pit.
Santa Rita, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32°48′13″N 108°03′39″W. Santa Rita in 1919 with mine in background. Santa Rita is a ghost town in Grant County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The site of Chino copper mine, Santa Rita was located fifteen miles (24.1 km) east of Silver City.
The new company filed for bankruptcy and the Phelps-Dodge Corporation acquired its claims. [6] The Phelps Dodge Headquarters Building was built in 1896 and is located in 5 Copper Queen Plaza, Bisbee, Az. The building was the headquarters of the Phelps Dodge Mining Co. from 1896 to 1961. It now houses the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum.
The Montezuma Copper Mining Company of Santa Fé, New Mexico was incorporated (1861) in the American Territory of New Mexico for the purpose of mining precious metals, industrial metals, and coal in the counties of Santa Ana, Santa Fé, San Miguel, and Rio Arriba.
Silver City, Pinos Altos and Mogollon Railroad (SC, PA&M) was a 2 ft ( 610 mm) narrow gauge railway serving copper mines along the Continental Divide [ 1] in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico. The communities of Silver City and Pinos Altos developed as 19th century miners recovered easily extracted gold and silver from ore deposits of ...
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.
The Kennecott Copper Corporation, which operated a large smelter at Hurley, New Mexico, generating as a byproduct thick clouds of air pollution, led the opposition to the environmentalists, represented by the New Mexico Citizens for Clean Air and Water. Eventually the company was forced to comply with fairly strict federal standards.