Copper is worth about $3.29 a pound, and there are approximately 6,000 pounds in each of these bundles. There is a lot of money in this shot.
These interesting facts are taken from the company brochure.
1. The Phelps Dodge Morenci Mine is North America’s leading producer of copper.
2. Arizona produces more copper than any other state in the nation.
3. Morenci is one of the technological marvels of the Western Hemisphere.
4. Morenci moves more than 700,000 tons of rock each day.
5. Their equipment in mammoth.
One $2 million haul truck can carry 270 tons of ore on tires almost 12 feet in diameter.
6. More than 2000 employees work around the clock producing about 840 million pounds of copper each year.
7. The town of Morenci is one of the last “company towns” in the United States.
8. The average single-family home contains about 440 pounds of copper.
9. Morenci is a “zero-discharge” operation. Virtually all of the water used at Morenci is recycled, some of it many times over.
