Fall 2025
In this issue, learn how a concerted, widespread effort brought the company’s rod operation back from the depths of the COVID pandemic and economic downturn. Other features in the fall edition include a Q&A with Senior Vice President and President of Technical Services Cory Stevens about the company’s Reinvent Mining initiative, a feature about a memo being the genesis of the company’s use of heat to support leach recovery, and a story of Morenci using an adjusted maintenance schedule to help drive performance.
Contents
The Scoop: Freeport Investing in Its Most Valuable Asset – Its People
Freeport is strengthening its commitment to employees by launching a company-wide initiative that standardizes training, upgrades technology, and provides clear career pathways to help its people grow.
Freeport’s Rod Rebound
A focus on preventing equipment failure rather than reacting to it has been critical to recent success of the El Paso and Miami rod mills.
‘At the Intersection’
In a wide-ranging Q&A, Senior Vice President and President of Technical Services Cory Stevens discusses early outcomes of the Reinvent Mining effort.
A Strategic Shift
An adjusted maintenance schedule is paying dividends at Morenci.
Degrees of Separation
‘The Heat Memo’ distilled years of field and lab tests to help position the company to use heat to drive improved leach recovery.
Building Skills, Raising Standards
Freeport is raising the bar on training – with a bold shift toward skills-based learning that brings clarity, consistency and accountability to job roles.
Skilled Trades Interns Build Better Future
Scholarships and paid summer internships are aimed at training students for high-demand professions.
Remediation Work Turning Grasberg Pit Stockpiles Back to Nature
Years-long environmental restoration is showing success as native wildlife and plants return to the area.
Photo of Road Runner Races to Photo Contest Victory
The winning entry was one of more than 600 employee entries submitted from sites companywide.
Miner Notes
A spotlight on happenings around
the company.
Our Voices
For this edition, we asked employees how they are using technology to more efficiently perform their job.
Word Search
Locate some of the key terms found in this issue.
Spot the Differences
Find the differences in a photo of Refinery Production Operator Richard Baca checking anode and cathode spacing at El Paso.