Morenci Mine

18722.5 km wideCopper

CountryUSA

RegionArizona

Year Opened1872

Size/Depth2.5 km wide

MineralCopper

About Morenci Mine

One of the largest copper producers in North America. Mined since 1872 in the Arizona copper belt. The open pit is among the widest in the world. Supplied copper for the telegraph and electrification booms of the late 1800s. Now operated by Freeport-McMoRan. One of the oldest continuously mined districts in the American West.

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