Santa Rita copper mine

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:coal
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Chino_Mine
gptkbp:annualProduction over 100 million pounds of copper (varies by year)
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:county gptkb:Grant_County
gptkbp:discoveredBy 1800
gptkbp:employs hundreds of workers
gptkbp:environmentalImpact groundwater contamination
tailings management
gptkbp:historicalEvent Apache attacks in 19th century
site of early 19th-century mining settlement
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Santa Rita copper mine
gptkbp:location gptkb:New_Mexico
gptkbp:miningMethod open-pit
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Santa_Rita_del_Cobre
gptkbp:nearestCity Silver City
gptkbp:notableFor one of the oldest continuously operated mines in the US
large open-pit copper mine
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:Freeport-McMoRan
gptkbp:ownedBy gptkb:Freeport-McMoRan
gptkbp:previousOwner gptkb:Phelps_Dodge
gptkb:Kennecott_Copper_Corporation
gptkb:Chino_Copper_Company
gptkbp:products copper
silver
molybdenum
gptkbp:state gptkb:New_Mexico
gptkbp:type porphyry copper deposit
gptkbp:website https://www.fcx.com/operations/north-america-mining/chino-mine
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Santa_Rita,_New_Mexico,_USA
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6