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United States Bureau of Mines; Coal Wars; Mine Owners' Association; National Mining Hall of Fame; Environmental issues with mining; North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company, a prosecution in 1884 led to the Sawyer Decision, among the first environmental decisions in the United States; Mountaintop removal#Legislation in the United States
Uranium mining companies of the United States (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Mining companies of the United States" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total.
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This list comprises the largest companies currently in the United States by revenue as of 2024, according to the Fortune 500 tally of companies and Forbes. The Fortune 500 list of companies includes only publicly traded companies, also including tax inversion companies. There are also corporations having foundation in the United States, such as ...
Rank Mine County and State Owner Source of copper Annual production (thousand tonnes) 1 Morenci: Greenlee County, Arizona: Freeport-McMoRan (72%), Sumitomo Group (28%): Open pit, copper-molybdenum ore, producing copper cathode, copper and molybdenum concentrates
In the United States, copper mining has been a major industry since the rise of the northern Michigan copper district in the 1840s. In 2017, the US produced 1.27 million metric tonnes of copper, worth $8 billion, making it the world's fourth largest copper producer, after Chile, China, and Peru. Copper was produced from 23 mines in the US.
North Carolina was the site of the first gold rush in the United States, following the discovery of a 17-pound (7.7 kg) gold nugget by 12-year-old Conrad Reed in a creek at his father's farm in 1799. The Reed Gold Mine , southwest of Georgeville in Cabarrus County, North Carolina produced about 50,000 troy ounces (1,600 kg) of gold from lode ...