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Ok Tedi Mine

The Ok Tedi Mine is an open-pit copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea located near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi River, in the Star Mountains Rural LLG of the North Fly District of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.


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Al Dempsey

Butte was the site of a large copper mine, and the entrepreneurs known as the Copper Kings.

Anaconda Copper Mine

Anaconda Copper Mine may refer to one of two mines operated by Anaconda Copper

Bioleaching

Nonetheless, at the largest copper mine of the world, Escondida in Chile the process seems to be favorable.

Boliden AB

The Aitik copper mine (a major mine within the company) was featured on a 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel series "Really Big Things".

Burra Burra Mine

The Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee) — a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, United States, and named after the Australian mine

Canadian mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Adastra Minerals Inc., incorporated in Canada with executive offices in the United Kingdom, and known from 1995 to 2004 as America Mineral Fields Inc., held two joint ventures, the Kolwezi Tailings Project (cobalt and copper) and a zinc-copper mine at Kipushi, both in Katanga Province.

Crotty Dam

It is named after James Crotty, who founded the North Mount Lyell Copper Mine at the turn of the 20th century.

Eagle Mine

Eagle mine project, a nickel and copper mine by proposed by the Kennecott Minerals Corporation

Frontier Mine

Frontier Mine, Katanga, a major copper mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Grande Noirceur

During Duplessis' mandates, several significant labour strikes occurred such as the Dominion Textile in Valleyfield in 1946, the Asbestos Strike of 1949 in the Estrie region and the Murdochville copper mine strike in 1957.

Granisle, British Columbia

In 1971 workmen excavating in an open-pit copper mine at Babine Lake discovered the partly articulated skeleton of a Columbian Mammoth.

Harriet Doerr

Albert Doerr's family owned a copper mine in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes, and in the late 1950s, the Doerrs moved to Mexico where Albert was engaged in restoring the mine.

Killin

Tomnadashan Mine, an abandoned copper mine overlooking the village, is sometimes identified as the haunt of the Rabbit of Caerbannog of Monty Python and the Holy Grail fame.

Lucius Seth Huntington

During the American Civil War, he profited from his ownership of a copper mine; later, the market in copper collapsed and so did Huntington's profits.

Manitouwadge

The town itself was founded by Noranda (now part of Xstrata) in the early 1950s to support the company's Geco copper mine.

Metorex

In Zambia the company owns Chibuluma, a modern mechanised underground copper mine located near the town of Kalulushi that produces copper concentrate to be sold to smelters.

Mount Jumbo

Miners christened a nearby copper mine 'Jumbo Lode' in honor of Barnum and Bailey's most famous attraction Jumbo, the largest elephant in the world, which Barnum acquired in 1882.

Mulegns

Around 600-500 BC, a copper mine and smelter were built in the Val Faller (Faller valley) near modern Mulegns.

Mutanda

Mutanda Mine, an open-pit copper mine in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Panguna mine

The discovery of vast copper ore deposits in Bougainville's Crown Prince Range in 1969 led to the establishment of a huge copper mine by Bougainville Copper Limited, a subsidiary of the Australian company Conzinc Rio Tinto of Australia.

Pant, Shropshire

Pant has a few notable features: Llanymynech Golf Club is unique as the only 18 hole course in the UK to straddle the border between two countries; Llanymynech Ogof, a copper mine where many Roman artefacts have been found; Bryn Offa Church of England Primary School, a relatively new school built after the closure of four schools in the surrounding area; and a large gin wheel in the village.

Reverse overshot water-wheel

It is not an isolated example, because Oliver Davies mentions examples from the Tharsis copper mine and Logroño in Spain, as well as from Dacia.

Säter

Sweden's first copper mine was built at the location in 1624, influenced by its proximity to the copper mountain at Falun with its tannery that had been located in Säter a few years earlier.

Sistan and Baluchestan Province

One of the main Mines in this province is Chel Kooreh copper mine in 120 km north of Zahedan and because of copper in Mining in Iran.

Sujangarh

Near Bidasar, a little farther to the north, a copper-mine was discovered about the middle of the 18th century, and was worked for a short time, but the ore was not rich enough to repay expenses.

Theba, Arizona

The Rowley Mine, a private copper mine known as a source of the mineral Wulfenite, is located near the settlement.

Tubalcain

Tubal Cain mine, abandoned copper mine in Olympic National Park in the US state of Washington

Wilhelm Hauchecorne

Afterwards he became director of a copper mine near Rheinbreitbach, and in 1866 was appointed director of the Berlin Mining Academy.

William Aden French

His novels include: Driftwood of the Current (1942), the story of the disastrous Winona flood of 1895; Oakley of the Ozarks (1942), a tale of young love among the hills and valleys; Wrestling the Wilderness (1943) a drama set in the north woods of Maine; and Strength of the Hills (1944), a drama set around the development of a copper mine in Shannon County.