DECEMBER 2019

STORIES INCLUDE

  • New Smelter Machine Born at Miami

  • Miami Rod Mill Celebrates 50 Years

  • Morenci Tackles American Mountain

  • Safford Combats Invasive Tamarisk Trees

  • Higher ISO Bar for Health and Safety

  • 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