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(Facility) Morenci Copper Smelter

Plant in Greenlee 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 10161405
MAS/MILS ID 0040110002
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Morenci Copper Smelter
Alternate or previous names Morenci Smelter

Comments on the site identification

  • ****SEE Morenci Mine Deposit ID 10282444 for more info

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -109.34425, 33.0668 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Greenlee(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Clifton(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Clifton(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco(hydrologic unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Greenlee

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 004 S 029 E 22 SE Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Smelter

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Phelps Dodge

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM PROD TAB

  • Deposit

    1973 CAP: 900000 ST CU

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-AUG-1993 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:

  • Phelps Dodge — acquired by Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Acquired by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in 2007 in what was then the largest mining-industry deal ever (~US$26 B).

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

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