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Arizona Copper
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Arizona produces 60% of the total copper mined in the US; in 2007, 750,000 tons of copper came out of the state. One of the major mining districts is located about 30 km south of Tucson. Starting around 1950, open-pit mining replaced underground operations, and the ASARCO-Mission complex, Twin Buttes, and Sierrita mines became large open pit operations. Accompanying copper mineralization, silver, molybdenum, zinc, lead and gold are extracted.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineArizona Copper. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001160.
