DECEMBER 2019
STORIES INCLUDE
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New Smelter Machine Born at Miami
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Miami Rod Mill Celebrates 50 Years
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Morenci Tackles American Mountain
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Safford Combats Invasive Tamarisk Trees
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Higher ISO Bar for Health and Safety
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Americas’ Concentrator
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December Features
Unlikely Alliance Combats Weed-like, Invasive Trees
Get an in-depth look at how Safford operations, the Gila Watershed Partnership and the San Carlos Apache Tribe are working together to eradicate an invasive tree species in eastern Arizona. > MORE
New Smelter Machine Born From In-House Innovation
Miami smelter employees devise a plan and pool their skills to build a replacement for the site’s 30- year-old anode takeoff machine. > MORE
Miami Rod Mill 50th Anniversary
After 50 years of operation, the mill continues to safely produce copper – melting copper cathode sheets and casting coils of copper rod used by wire-makers and other customers around the world. > MORE
Morenci Tackles American Mountain
The 6-square-mile area in the Morenci Mining District contains a whopping 5 billion pounds of copper – a third of Morenci’s reserves. > MORE
Higher ISO Bar for Health and Safety
Better and simpler are two words that describe the company’s transition to a new health and safety system called ISO 45001 from the long-used OHSAS 18001 standard. > MORE
Americas’
Concentrator
Learn how the company is using the same workforce at the same mines with much of the same equipment to safely deliver 125,000 tons per day of increased throughput. > MORE