The company runs five mines in Arizona and two in New Mexico. The Morenci mine southeast of Phoenix is the largest of those. The U.S. imports about half of its copper, with Freeport-McMoRan ...

Why does sustainable mining matter to Arizona? Arizona is at the center of America’s mineral future. The Hermosa Project, operated by South32 in the Patagonia Mountains southeast of Tucson ...

Swedish equipment manufacturer Sandvik has scored a record order for electric mining equipment at South32’s greenfield Hermosa critical minerals project in Arizona – the deal is being valued ...

Apr. 27—Wood timbers caught fire inside the mine vein known as the 11-foot vein of the Mount Lookout Colliery owned by the Temple Anthracite Coal Co in Wyoming on May 27, 1926. Sixty three ...

US Judge Halts Plan to Transfer Oak Flat Land for Contested Arizona Copper Mine PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. district judge on Friday temporarily halted the federal government’s plans to transfer ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. district judge on Friday temporarily halted the federal government’s plans to transfer land in eastern Arizona for a massive copper mining project amid protest by Native ...

Morenci Fire, Morenci Swift Water Rescue, Greenlee County Search and Rescue, Greenlee MES and the Arizona Department of Public Safety helped crews reach the scene and with the rescue. Arizona’s ...

(Joe Duhownik/Courthouse News) PHOENIX (CN) — As the Supreme Court considers stepping in, a federal judge on Friday temporarily halted the construction of a two-mile-wide copper mine on an Apache holy ...