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Opened. 1909. Owner. Company. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine or Santa Rita del Cobre, is an American open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico 15 miles (24 km) east of Silver City. The mine was started as the Chino Copper Company in ...
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. Top copper producing states in 2014 were (in descending order) Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, and Montana.
Grant County, New Mexico: Freeport-McMoRan: Copper ore, leached 55 (2021) [2] 13 Silver Bell: Pima County, Arizona: Grupo México: Copper ore, leached 19 (2018) [5] 14 Eagle Mine: Marquette County, Michigan: Lundin Mining: Underground mine producing nickel and copper concentrates
Santa Rita, New Mexico. Coordinates: 32°48′13″N 108°03′39″W. Santa Rita in 1919 with mine in background. Santa Rita is a ghost town in Grant County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The site of Chino copper mine, Santa Rita was located fifteen miles (24.1 km) east of Silver City.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.
The Climax mine, located in Climax, Colorado, United States, is a major molybdenum mine in Lake and Summit counties, Colorado. Shipments from the mine began in 1915. At its highest output, the Climax mine was the largest molybdenum mine in the world, and for many years it supplied three quarters of the world's supply of molybdenum.
Porphyry copper deposits represent an important resource and the dominant source of copper that is mined today to satisfy global demand. [6] Via compilation of geological data, it has been found that the majority of porphyry deposits are Phanerozoic in age and were emplaced at depths of approximately 1 to 6 kilometres with vertical thicknesses on average of 2 kilometres. [6]
The El Chino mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine. Open-pit mining refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth through their removal from an open pit or borrow. This process is done on the ground surface of the earth [6] It is best suited for accessing mostly vertical deposits of minerals ...