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(Facility) Hayden Copper Smelter

Plant in Gila county in Arizona, United States with commodity Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10137007
MAS/MILS ID 0040070068
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Hayden Copper Smelter
Alternate or previous names As&R Hayden Smelter

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -110.77569, 33.00339 (WGS84)
Elevation 671
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Gila(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hayden(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Globe(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mesa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Gila(hydrologic unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Gila

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 005 S 015 E 14 NENE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -110.77569, 33.00339
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Plant type Smelter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Year 1994

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ARIZONA DEPT OF MINERLS RESOURCES 1973 DIRECTORY OF ACTIVE M

  • Deposit

    OWN/OP: AMERICAN SMELTING AND REFINING

  • Deposit

    SMELTER CAPACITY:960000 TPY CU

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 24-APR-95 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.) — acquired by Asarco LLC, subsidiary of Grupo México (2009)
    American Smelting and Refining Co. Filed Chapter 11 in 2005; acquired out of bankruptcy by Grupo México in 2009.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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