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Copper Mountain, British Columbia. Coordinates: 49°20′00″N 120°31′32″W. Copper Mountain was an important copper-mining company town in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, just south of the town of Princeton. In 1884 copper ore was discovered by a trapper named James Jameson while out hunting deer.
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.
Morenci mine. The Morenci Mine is a large copper mine located near Morenci, Arizona, United States. Morenci represents one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world, having estimated reserves of 3.2 billion tonnes (3.5 × 10 9 short tons) of ore grading 0.16% copper. [1][unreliable source?] It is located in Greenlee ...
Copper Mountain Mining (CMMC) reported quarterly production of 30.4 million pounds of copper equivalent (25.5 million pounds of copper, 8,187 ounces of gold, and 160,484 ounces of silver). The C1 ...
Copper Mountain (Wyoming) / 43.45944°N 107.94472°W / 43.45944; -107.94472. Copper Mountain is visible on the right side of this image of Boysen Reservoir. To the left are the Owl Creek Mountains. Copper Mountain is a roughly 8,317 foot mountain in the Bridger Mountains, a small range that straddles the Fremont and Hot Springs County line.
Oquirrh Mountains. The Oquirrh Mountains (/ ˈoʊkər / OH-kər) is a mountain range that runs north–south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah 's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. The range runs from northwestern Utah County –central & eastern Tooele County, to the south shore of the Great Salt ...
The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, [3] is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest human-made excavation, and deepest open-pit mine in the world, [4][5] which is considered to have ...
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]