Freeport‐McMoRan (FCX) is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. Our company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware on November 10, 1987. We operate large, long‐lived geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum. Our portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits; and significant mining operations in the Americas, including the Bagdad minerals district in North America and the Cerro Verde operation in South America.
Bagdad is located approximately 60 miles west of Prescott and 100 miles northwest of Phoenix and is home to Freeport‐McMoRan’s Bagdad Operations, the world’s first commercial-scale concentrate leach processing facility (2003) and one of the longest continuously operating solution extraction/electrowinning (SX/EW) plants in the world (1970).
To learn about Bagdad operation's economic impact on Yavapai County and Arizona, please refer to fcx.com/sustainability.
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