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The 100% owned Cactus Mine Project Cactus Project or Project is a porphyry copper project located on private land near the city of Casa Grande Arizona USA The city of Phoenix and Sky Harbor International Airport are situated approximately 55 miles to the north and Tucson is approximately 75 miles to the southeast
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The porphyry copper deposit was discovered in 1952 and has been operational since 1998 It is the first mine to be developed entirely by the state owned Codelco and produced 427 791t of copper and molybdenum in 2024 Construction work for the Radomiro Tomic Copper Sulphide Mine Phase I was completed in June 2024 with an investment of $370m
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Information on porphyry copper deposits from around the world with grade and tonnage models a general classification based on geologic setting mineralogy with data allowing locations of these deposits to be plotted using GIS View Show in a web browser window Global Show in Google Earth or other KML viewer uncompressed bytes
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The Ray Copper Mine is near Ray Arizona Historically the site has been associated with the Mineral Creek Mining District which is now part of the Tonto National Forest The site was first discovered in 1846 by The Army Of The West The Ray Copper Mine is a surface mining operation Initial production took place in 1911
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Minera Andes has added a prominent South American porphyry copper geologist to its exploration team to manage exploration at Los Azules through contracting with Nivaldo Rojas and Associates a
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Nevada Copper has contracted Sedgman and Cementation for the project and the 40 workers currently on site will grow to 150 in coming months The underground mine will eventually have
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1976 Cuajone copper mine is located in the Moquegua region of Peru near the Andes mountain range which is the largest continental mountain range in the world The mine is owned and operated by Southern Peru Copper Corporation SCC a Mexico based mining company and subsidiary of Groupo Mexico SCC also owns and operates the Toquepala copper
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Copper Mountain Mine Location 20 kilometres south of Princeton Mine type Open pit Commodities Copper gold silver Owner Copper Mountain Mining Corporation 75% Mitsubishi Materials Corporation 25% Projected mine life 2024 This conventional open pit mine produces copper concentrates with gold and silver credits
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Located in northwestern British Columbia Galore Creek is one of the world s largest undeveloped porphyry copper gold silver deposits Galore Creek Mining Corporation GCMC a partnership between Newmont Corporation and Teck Resources Limited is committed to improving the project economics and advancing the asset towards development
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Efrain is a professional geoscientist with over 18 years of international mining experience in mineral exploration large mine operations and consulting He has worked on various deposit types throughout North and South America collaborating with multi disciplinary teams by providing practical geological input to exploration and mining projects
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Utah copper mine Visible from space the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah has produced more than 12 million tons of porphyry copper The mine is more than 4 kilometers miles across at the top and 800 meters mile deep and is one of the engineering wonders of the world Photograph by Cunningham USGS
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SolGold s Apala could yield over $US70bn worth of payable metal over its 55 year life which includes an estimated 207 000t of copper 438 000oz of gold and of silver in concentrate per year for the first 25 years And that s nothing on Rio Tinto owned Kennecott which has been mining the Bingham Canyon pit in the US since 1903
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Read more about Geology of the Cyprus Tohono Porphyry copper deposit Pinal and Pima Counties Arizona in John Ed Kreis Henry and Hoag Corolla 1946 Exploration of the Copper Butte Mine Mineral Creek Mining District Pinal County Ariz Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations 3914 34 p Read more about Exploration of the
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Copper porphyries were the first metallic deposits to be mined in open pits starting in 1905 with the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah Since 1970 over 95% of US copper production has come
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7 days agoLarge porphyry copper system In essence the Bommie Prospect located southwest of Mount Angelo North is interpreted as a large low grade porphyry copper system with significant drill intercepts Copper intercepts to date have shown some variability in thickness with higher grades occurring at the northern end of the deposit
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The cost of refined copper produced from western United States porphyry copper ores in almost every case exceeds $ per pound with the average close to $ per pound Some mines costs exceed $ per pound Copper mining in the United States has been a major industry since the rise of the northern Michigan copper district in the
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Download or read book Porphyry Copper Molybdenum and Gold Deposits Volcanogenic Deposits massive Sulfides and Deposits in Layered Rock written by Victor F Hollister and published by Society for Mining Metallurgy This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages Available in PDF EPUB and Kindle Book excerpt
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Arizaro Gold Copper Porphyry System The Arizaro Project is located within the Lindero mining concession kilometers southeast of the Lindero Project Historic work has included regional and local mapping trenching with surface rock chip sampling 27 trenches 6 568 total meters 495 samples and drilling 8 854 meters 29 core holes completed over four campaigns 2024 and 2024 2024
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Mar 18 2021The mine is located at high altitude — between 3 000 and 5 000 metres above sea level Most of the concentrate produced at Collahuasi is sold to smelters in China for further refining 3 Morenci USA 445 ktonnes Located near Morenci Arizona United States Morenci is the largest copper mine in North America
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The geology of the Hillsboro district is dominated by Cretaceous andesite flows ± Ma 40Ar/39Ar breccias and volcaniclastic rocks that were erupted from a volcano The Copper Flat quartz monzonite porphyry CFQM ± Ma 40Ar/39Ar intruded the vent of the volcano
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Five of six drill holes intersected significant porphyry style copper and gold mineralization over widths of up to 250 metres Cybele can acquire a 70% interest in the Cargo property from Golden Cross Operations Pty Ltd by spending AUD$ million on exploration and development over 4 years
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Early copper was mined in Michigan even before Europeans arrived Huge deposits in places like Butte Montana Bingham Utah Yerington Nevada which is reopening and Morenci Arizona helped drive the electrification of the country Many of these mines have since closed but the American Southwest still produces a lot of copper
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5 days agoThe operation mined million tonnes of ore grading % copper in Q3 2024 which was comprised of million tonnes grading % copper from the Kakula Mine including million tonnes
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The major products from porphyry copper deposits are copper and molybdenum or copper and gold The term porphyry copper now includes engineering as well as geological considerations It refers to large relatively low grade epigenetic intrusion related deposits that can be mined using mass mining techniques
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Porphyry copper mines in Chile account for about 55 percent of the world s mine production of rhenium rhenium is also recovered from porphyry copper deposits in the United States Armenia Kazakhstan Mexico Peru Russia and Uzbekistan
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There are several large porphyry copper deposits in the world Chuquicamata copper deposit northern Chile 690 Mt % Cu Escondida and El Salvador copper deposits Chile Toquepala copper deposit Peru Lavender copper pit Arizona and Malanjkhand copper deposit India 145 Mt % Cu View chapter Purchase book
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Nov 14 2022Castillo Copper Ltd ASX CCZ has unearthed significant shallow clay hosted rare earth elements REE at the Broken Hill Alliance BHA Project s East Zone in Far West New South Wales with assays returning up to 2 410 parts per million ppm total rare earth oxides TREO with up to % magnet REOs The discovery has prompted the company to shift its strategic focus to the REE
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Deployed on a short term assignment to the Bonnifield Mining District Alaska USA to work on the Red Mountain VMS Project Working alongside the NAI project management team I provided assistance in the day to day heli borne exploration activities which included field mapping prospecting and ground truthing as well as the execution of a large silting program
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Nice work MDRU with another publication in Economic Geology Check out the latest contribution by Rob Lee et al on recognising porphyry copper potential…
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4 days agoA number of other copper porphyry and porphyry skarn deposits are located near Pircas Verdes Piton is a leached intrusive with anomalous copper values in rock chip samples that covers
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