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Amoco expanded Cyprus into a diversified worldwide mining company. Amoco spun off Cyprus Minerals Company in 1985. [1] In 1986, Cyprus acquired the Sierrita copper and molybdenum mine near Tucson, Arizona. In July 1988, Cyprus Minerals bought the Inspiration mine and smelting complex in Miami, Arizona. [2]
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 .
The rich Inspiration copper mine opened in 1911. It was promoted by Boyce Thompson, who owned the nearby Magma Mine in Superior, Arizona. He retained a 15% interest in the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company when that was founded in 1915. The mine is currently operated by Freeport-McMoran, which renamed it the Miami Mine.
It's beginning to look like Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's acquisition of oil and gas produce Plains Exploration was prescient. The prospects of an extended closure of its huge Grasberg mine ...
After a spate of tragic accidents claimed the lives of dozens of workers at its huge Grasberg gold and copper mine in Indonesia, Freeport-McMoRan was given the go-ahead by the government to reopen ...
The Miami mine is owned and operated by Freeport-McMoRan. Mining began in 1911 as the Inspiration mine, and the nation's first froth flotation copper concentrator to process sulfide minerals was built and began production in 1915. Inspiration was among the first to employ vat leaching in 1926 and precipitation plants to recover oxide minerals.
Copper miner Freeport McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) has significant potential to soar over the coming decade, in line with a rise in the price of copper and the company's ability to expand production. Here ...
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 ...