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Bagdad Copper Mine
Bagdad is an open-pit copper mine and concentrator, with molybdenum by-products.
It is home to the world’s first commercial-scale concentrate leach processing facility (2003) and one of the longest continuously operating SX/EW plant in the world (1970). An unincorporated community, Bagdad is one of two Freeport-McMoRan Copper
& Gold “company towns.” The other is Morenci, Arizona.
Freeport-McMoRan (which acquired Phelps Dodge in 2007) operates the copper mine. Cyprus Mines Corporation formerly operated the copper mine until Cyprus merged with Phelps Dodge. This copper mine does open pit mining and currently 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 a small railroad community named Hillside.
Source: Wikipedia, Bagdad, Arizona.
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
FCX is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. FCX operates large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum. FCX has a dynamic portfolio of operating, expansion and growth projects in the copper industry and is the world’s largest producer of molybdenum.
Source: FCX.com.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., (FMCG, NYSE: FCX) often called simply Freeport, is the world's lowest-cost copper producer and one of the world's largest producers of gold. It was formerly based in New Orleans, Louisiana but moved its headquarters to Phoenix, Arizona, after acquiring copper producer Phelps Dodge in 2007. In addition to Phelps Dodge, its subsidiaries include PT Freeport Indonesia, PT Irja Eastern Minerals and Atlantic Copper, S.A. Freeport is the largest publicly traded copper and molybdenum producer in the world.
Source:
Wikipedia, Freeport-McMoRan.
Haul Truck
Haul trucks are off-highway, two-axle,
rigid dump trucks specifically
engineered for use in high production
mining and heavy-duty construction
environments. Haul truck capacities range from 50 short tons (45 t) to 400 short tons (363 t).
Power shovel
A Power shovel (also stripping shovel or Front Shovel or Electric Mining Shovel) is a bucket equipped machine, usually electrically powered, used for digging and loading earth or fragmented rock, and mineral extraction.
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