(Facility) San Manuel Copper Refinery

Plant in Pinal county in Arizona, United States with commodity Copper
Sections on this page
  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 10283396
MAS/MILS ID 0040210028
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) San Manuel Copper Refinery
Alternate or previous names San Manuel Refinery

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -110.61958, 32.61541 (WGS84)
Elevation 975
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pinal(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Peppersauce Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mammoth(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tucson(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower San Pedro(hydrologic unit)

San Pedro-Willcox(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Pinal

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 009 S 017 E 33 NWNWNW Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -110.61958, 32.61541

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Magma Copper Co.
    Last year 1996
  • Type Owner
    Owner Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd.
    Home office Australia
    Year 1996
    First year 1996

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    EMJ M&M DIRECTORY

  • Deposit

    1973 CAP 200000 TONS TPY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-SEP-1996 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.

Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.