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The Mineral Park mine is a large open-pit copper mine located in the Cerbat Mountains, 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona (in the southwestern United States). A 2013 report said that Mineral Park has an estimated reserves of 389 million t (383 million long tons; 429 million short tons) of ore grading 0.14% copper and 31 million oz (1.9 ...
The Ray mine has one of the largest copper reserves in the United States, with proven and probable reserves of 835.7 million tonnes (822,500,000 long tons; 921,200,000 short tons) of ore grading 1.73% copper, as of December 31, 2018. [2] [3] [4] Copper from the Ray mine goes to the Hayden Smelter.
In Arizona, copper mining has been a major industry since the 19th century. In 2007, Arizona was the leading copper-producing state in the country, producing 750 thousand metric tons of copper, valued at $5.54 billion. Arizona's copper production was 60% of the total for the United States. Copper mining also produces gold and silver as ...
Denison Mines planned to begin mining its Arizona One mine in 2007. [9] The deposit is in a breccia pipe on the Colorado Plateau of northern Arizona. [ 10 ] In March 2011, the State of Arizona issued air and water permits to Denison which would allow uranium mining to resume at three locations north of the Grand Canyon, subject to federal approval.
Arizona breccia pipe uranium mineralization; 1983 Arizona copper mine strike; Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources; Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum; Arizona State Mine Inspector; Artillery Mountains
Mines in Arizona — historic and present day sites of mining operations in Arizona; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ...
Resolution Copper has proposed to give the federal government 5,376 acres (21.76 km 2) of environmentally sensitive land in Arizona in exchange for the 2,422-acre (9.80 km 2) oak flat federal parcel, [12] which includes the Oak Flat Campground (protected since 1955) and several outdoor climbing sites including the Mine, Atlantis and the Pond.
The mine is located in southern Pima County, southwest of Tucson and west of Green Valley-Sahuarita. Originally developed as an underground mine in 1907, the Sierrita open pit has been in operation since 1959 and is a copper and molybdenum mining complex, operating on a porphyry copper deposit with oxide, secondary sulfide, and primary sulfide ...