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Ecological footprint and total material requirement as

Case studies, data and scope of our study. We chose the three copper mines as our study cases. Copper is the third most used metal by the industrial sector after iron and aluminum. Its production has grown approximately 2.75% a year over a hundred years (Mudd et al., 2012; Nilsson et al., 2017).

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Assessing the future environmental impacts of copper production …

The environmental impacts of pyrometallurgical copper production will more than double from 2010 to 2050 and is the largest contributor to the environmental footprint. ... In our case study on China, we focus the upscaling and forecasting. Or, alternatively formulated, we applied the LCA methodology not on a typical small-scale functional unit ...

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Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining Activities on …

Environmental Impact Assessment of Mining Activities on Groundwater: Case Study of Copper Mine in Jiangxi Province, China. Authors: Zongjie Lyu ... New York: American Elsevier. Google Scholar. Bear, J., and Y. Bachmat. 1990. Vol. 4 of Introduction to modeling of transport phenomena in porous media. New York: Springer Science and …

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Energy Management Systems in Copper Smelting: The Atlantic Copper Case

Copper smelters play an important role in the extractive metallurgy of copper, with 80% of mining output processed in primary smelters to produce copper cathodes, while the remaining 20% is refined at hydrometallurgical plants at the mines. Energy represents more...

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King Copper | AZGS

520.621.2352 | 1955 East 6th Street, P.O. Box 210184, Tucson, AZ 85721. The maps, reports, and other information and content on this website are provided as a public service for informational purposes only.

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Mining and Environmental Health Disparities in Native American …

Introduction. Contamination of soil and water by waste from more than 160,000 abandoned hard rock mines throughout the Western USA (operationally defined to include Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) has created a legacy of chronic …

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Apache opposition to copper mine tests religious

Backers of the mine have questioned the Apaches' religious ties to the land and praised the project for the economic benefits it would bring to this struggling part of Arizona and the ...

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Uncertainty and Reliability Analysis Applied to Slope Stability: A Case

Sungun copper mine will be one of the Iran's biggest mines with final pit's height of 700 meters. For this study two of its main slopes were assessed, one dipping to the NE (030) and the other to the SE (140). Probability density function of cohesion and angle of friction for the slopes were developed using limit equilibrium methods.

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ICSG Factbook 2020

Copper Mine Production by Country: Top 20 Countries in 2019 12 Trends in copper Mining Capacity, 2000‐2024 13 Top 20 Copper Mines by Capacity, basis 2020 14 Constraints on Copper Supply 15 Copper Smelter Production: World Copper Smelter Production 1980‐ ... The International Copper Study Group (ICSG) was formally established ...

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MEDIA KIT Country Case Study

Country Case Study Value-Addition Potential Is Complicated in Zambia's Copper Sector At the time of Zambia's independence in 1964, copper mining was concentrated in the northern part of the country, and the industry was dominated by two foreign owned companies: Anglo American Corporation (AAC) and Rhodesia Selection Trust (RST).

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Freeport's Grasberg/Ertsberg Mine in West Papua, …

mine deposit totaled 2.8 billion metric tons of ore, whose grade was 1.07% copper, 0.92g/t gold and 4.02g/t of silver representing 56.6 billion pounds of copper, 58.0 million ounces of gold and 180.8 million ounces of silver. 2

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Case Study: Sustainability Critical for Resolution Copper

EVs use four times more copper than conventional vehicles. The Resolution Copper Project has enough copper to manufacture almost 220 million EVs, or about half the global supply, by 2040. But at 1.3 miles underground, getting to that copper safely and sustainably is the top priority for Resolution Copper. Ventilation, temperature and water ...

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60 Centuries of Copper: Early Copper Mining in Britain

There were some small Roman copper mines at Llandudno, where an open-cast on Great Orme's Head yielded a coin of Aurelian (A.D. 270) and many more recent ones have been found in the spoil-heaps. This ore was copper carbonate.

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Multi-stage optimization framework for the real-time truck …

ABSTRACT This work deals with the optimal decisions for materials handling in open-pit mines. The main purpose of this research is to present a multi-stage approach, which has three sequential stages: (a) fleet size selection stage, (b) fleet allocation stage, and (c) real-time truck dispatching stage. At first, a simulation-based optimisation …

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Vehicle electrification requires 55% more copper mines by 2050 — study

The study puts that into doubt by pointing out that the new copper mines that came online between 2019 and 2022 took an average of 23 years from the time of a resource discovery for mines to be ...

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Zambia's Lumwana copper mine | Case Studies | IJGlobal

After the global copper price collapsed in the 1970s Kenneth Kaunda nationalised the mines. However with the industry in dire need of modernisation, the state-run Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) was split up and privatised in 1997, with Anglo American set to become the main benificiary.

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The top 10 biggest copper mines in the world

Sulphide ore comprises more than 82% of the mine's copper reserves. Cananea, Mexico. Cananea, also known as Buenavista copper mine, located in Sonora, Mexico, is the world's second biggest copper mine by reserve. ... It produced 365,300t of copper in 2012. Anglo American, holding a 50.1% interest, is the operator of Los Bronces.

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Case Studies

Modular Mining's Performance Assurance team helps a North American copper mine improve daily shift production by 22%. Nearly five years ago, Modular Mining introduced the Performance Assurance (PA) program, a next-level support initiative designed to ensure that each customer receives maximum value from their Modular Mining technologies.

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Copper can't be mined fast enough to electrify the US

Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current U.S. policy guidelines to transition the country's electricity and vehicle infrastructure to renewable energy, according to a University of Michigan study.

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Copper transformed way the world works before, and it's …

Worlds of copper. Our book looks at different 'worlds of copper' that have arisen over the last century and a half. The term 'world of copper' was first coined by British historians Chris Evans ...

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Mine Water Use, Treatment, and Reuse in the United States: …

This study also reviews the available literature to broadly evaluate mining in the United States and performs a techno-economic assessment on water use and disposal for three detailed case studies applicable to lithium, uranium, and copper mines. These case studies highlight specific industry examples of distinct extraction methods ...

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A Toxic Century: Mining Giant Must Clean Up Mess

After years of polluting and contaminating the environment, the American Smelting and Refining Company's notorious copper-smelting plant in El Paso, Texas, will be cleaned up this year. Asarco ...

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'Dr Copper' has a worrying message about the energy …

The writer chaired the new S&P Global study 'The Future of Copper: ... a battery-powered electric car requires at least two and a half times more copper than a conventional car; a medium-sized ...

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Tribe warns US government against moving ahead with mine

Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried U.S. officials will move forward on the project even as they await a federal appellate court ruling in the case.

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9th Circuit rejects challenge to Arizona copper mine; Apache …

Vicky Peacey, president and general manager of Resolution Copper, the company behind the proposed project, welcomed the decision. "There is significant local support for the project, which has ...

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Productivity in mining operations: Reversing the downward …

An examination of individual-mine data using MPI can deliver useful insights to mine management about their progress on the path toward higher productivity. A South American copper mine made significant capital expenditures to boost its production and saw output rise 3.9 percent per year (Exhibit 7).

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Native Copper, Silver, and Gold Accessible to Early …

New analyses and selected data from the literature summarize metallic impurities in native copper, silver, gold, and lead and in the oxidized copper minerals, oxide, silicate, carbonate, chloride, and sulfate, together with impurities …

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(PDF) Ecological footprint and total material requirement as

Ecological footprint and total material requirement as environmental indicators of mining activities: Case studies of copper mines October 2020 Environmental and Sustainability Indicators 8:100082

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Mine Water Use, Treatment, and Reuse in the United States: …

This study also reviews the available literature to broadly evaluate mining in the United States and performs a techno-economic assessment on water use and disposal for three detailed case studies applicable to lithium, uranium, and copper mines.

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History & Milestones | Konkola Copper Mines Plc

The mines in the Copper belt were initially owned by Anglo American Corporation and Roan Selection Trust. However, in the early 1970s the mines were nationalised. During the subsequent 20-year period, the government's ownership of …

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World's ten largest copper mines

GlobalData tracks and profiles over 33,000 mines and projects from early exploration to closure, across more than 150 countries and more than 100 commodities. Buy the latest mine-site profiles here. The following are the ten largest copper mines by production across the world in 2023, according to GlobalData's mining database.

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Apache opposition to copper mine tests religious

Apache tribe members say Arizona land slated to be destroyed for a copper mine is sacred. Their legal battle is now a major religious liberty test.

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ASARCO's History

ASARCO is one of the oldest US-based multinational corporations. During its more than 120-year history, the company owned mines in Mission, Ray and Silver Bell, Arizona; Butte, Troy, Black Pine and Mike Horse, Montana; Knoxville, Tennessee; Glover, Missouri; Garfield, Utah; Tar Creek, Oklahoma; Leadville, Colorado; Ground Hog, New …

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U.S. needs minerals for green tech, but planned mines could …

As the U.S. plans new mines for copper, lithium and other metals to use in green technologies, mining projects in the West could threaten scarce water supplies.

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