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Copper was initially recovered from sulfide ores by directly smelting the ore in a furnace. [10] The smelters were initially located near the mines to minimize the cost of transport. This avoided the prohibitive costs of transporting the waste minerals and the sulfur and iron present in the copper-containing minerals.
Ruins of equipment used in the chemical leaching process used to separate the copper from the surrounding rock. This was the miners' last attempt at separating the copper from the ore. The Nonesuch Mine is an abandoned copper mine and small ghost town in the southeast corner of the Porcupine Mountains State Park in Carp Lake Township ...
Copper mines operated in Hancock County near Blue Hill and Sullivan, from 1877 to 1884. [29] The Harborside mine, near Brooksville mined copper and zinc from an open pit from 1968 to 1972. The underground Black Hawk mine near Blue Hill produced copper, zinc, and lead from 1972 to 1977. [30]
Gold-copper ore, concentrated and leached 16 (2018) [6] 16 Lisbon Valley San Juan County, Utah: Lisbon Valley Mining Company Copper ore, open pit, heap leached 10–15 (2018) [9] 17 Miami: Gila County, Arizona: Freeport-McMoRan: Copper ore, leached 5 (2021) [2] 18 Carlota Gila County, Arizona: KGHM Polska Miedź: Porphyry copper open pit ...
The Morenci Mine is a large copper mine located near Morenci, Arizona, United States.Morenci represents one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world, having estimated reserves of 3.2 billion tonnes (3.5 × 10 9 short tons) of ore grading 0.16% copper.
Remains of an abandoned piping system used for uranium in-situ leaching in Stráž pod Ralskem, Czech Republic. In-situ leaching (ISL), also called in-situ recovery (ISR) or solution mining, is a mining process used to recover minerals such as copper and uranium through boreholes drilled into a deposit, in situ.
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Many copper mines have existed in the Copper Country of the U.S. state of Michigan. These include both large-scale commercial ventures and small operations. There are hundreds of ancient mining pits in and around the Copper Country area, especially on Isle Royale (several of these were developed).