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Bagdad represents one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world, having estimated reserves of 873.6 million tonnes of ore grading 0.36% copper. [1] It is located in Yavapai County, Arizona, just west of the company town of Bagdad. It is currently owned by Freeport-McMoRan.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., often called Freeport, is an American mining company based in the Freeport-McMoRan Center, in Phoenix, Arizona. The company is the world's largest producer of molybdenum , a major copper producer and operates the world's largest gold mine , the Grasberg mine in Papua, Indonesia .
Freeport-McMoRan (which acquired Phelps Dodge in 2007) now operates the copper/molybdenum mine. This copper mine does open pit mining and runs on an around-the-clock schedule. The copper concentrate is either trucked to southern Arizona, or taken by semi to 20 miles outside of town to the BNSF Railway's Phoenix Subdivision in Hillside ...
As part of a big bet on oil and gas, Freeport-McMoRan picked up some intriguing possibilities for future growth. The most intriguing, however, are its ultra-deep prospects in the shallow waters of ...
Freeport-McMoRan: Copper ore, leached 110 5 Bagdad: Yavapai: Freeport-McMoRan: Copper-molybdenum ore, concentrated and leached 100 6 Miami: Gila: Freeport-McMoRan: Copper ore, leached 90 7 Sierrita: Pima: Freeport-McMoRan: Copper-molybdenum ore, concentrated and leached 80 8 Pinto Valley: Gila: Capstone Mining Copper-molybdenum ore ...
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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