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However, the remote desert location made mining generally uneconomic without onsite treatment. The area was mostly idle until the New Cornelia mine opened in 1917 as the first large open-pit mine in Arizona. Mining continued in the district until 1983. The district produced 6.304 billion pounds of copper.
Underground mine producing nickel and copper concentrates 18 (2018) [8] 15 Phoenix Lander County, Nevada: Newmont Mining Corporation: 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 ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Arizona designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
New Cornelia mine – inactive copper mine near Ajo, Arizona; Ray mine – Asarco copper mine located in Pinal county, Arizona; Red Dog mine – zinc and lead mine in Red Dog Mine, Alaska; Rio Tinto Borax Mine – California's largest open-pit mine and the largest borax mine in the world; Thompson Creek mine – molybdenum mine in Custer County ...
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 ...
The mine has one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world. In 2018, the deposit had estimated proven and probable reserves of 3,369 million tonnes of ore grading 0.23% copper and 0.02% molybdenum , along with an additional resource of 1,378 million tonnes of mineralized material at 0.17% copper and 0.02% molybdenum.
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