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2 unusual facts about Phelps Dodge


Ansonia Clock Company

In 1844, metal dealer Anson Greene Phelps formed the Ansonia Brass company in Connecticut, to supply the expanding clock business - nine companies were producing clocks in Connecticut.

Kitsault, British Columbia

The later town of Kitsault was established in 1979 as the home community to a molybdenum mine run by the Phelps Dodge corporation of the United States.


Atacama Region

The region’s main copper deposit is Candelaria, which produces around 200,000 tonnes per year and is controlled by Phelps Dodge, an international corporation.

Paul Hazen

In addition to the directorships already mentioned, Hazen formerly served on the boards of E.piphany Inc., KSL Recreation Group, Pacific Telesis, Phelps Dodge Corporation and Shanghai Commercial Bank.

The Sinister Pig

HISTORICAL: Guatemalan Civil War (motivation for de Baca); Institutional Revolutionary Party (historic basis for de Vargas military association); Phelps Dodge mining and minerals company (historic basis for mines and smelters in southern New Mexico and Arizona); Cobell v. Kempthorne (class-action lawsuit involving claims that the U.S. government incorrectly accounted for Indian trust assets)


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Bisbee Deportation

Phelps Dodge officials also met with executives of the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, who agreed to provide rail transportation for any deportees.

Louis S. Cates

During his tenure the capital stock of Phelps-Dodge more than quadrupled in value, despite the Great Depression.

Morton v. Ruiz

Ramon Ruiz and his wife Anita were Papago Indians and U.S. citizens who in 1940 left the Papago reservation in Arizona to seek employment 15 miles away at the Phelps-Dodge copper mines at Ajo.