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Chino mine

Chino mine, United States. Producing, open pit, mining copper since 1910.

Why Chino is famous

Open-pit copper complex in New Mexico, in operation since 1910. 2025 output 150 million lb of copper (100% owned by Freeport).1,2

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Chino today

Where copper is mined todayMining in United States

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People

Worked hereDaniel C. JacklingHe took the Bingham scale to Chino and Ray.3

Mines

ExamplesTyroneFreeport's New Mexico copper: Chino since 1910 and Tyrone since 1967.1An example ofMorenciOpen-pit copper in the Southwest: Chino in New Mexico, Morenci in Arizona.1

Sources

  1. Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 Freeport-McMoRan Inc (SEC)
  2. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  3. Hall of Fame: Daniel Jackling Mining Foundation of the Southwest

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.