We have seven operating copper mines in North America – Morenci, Bagdad, Sierrita, Miami and Safford in Arizona, and Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico. Our North America copper mines include open-pit mining, sulfide ore concentrating, leaching and solution extraction/electrowinning operations. A majority of the copper produced at our North America copper mines is cast into copper rod by our rod and refining operations, which consist of copper conversion facilities including a smelter, refinery, rod mill and a specialty copper products facility. The remainder of our North America copper sales is in the form of copper cathode or concentrate, a portion of which is sold to Atlantic Copper (our smelting and refining unit in Spain).

We are also the world's largest producer of molybdenum and molybdenum-based chemicals. In addition to production from our Henderson and Climax molybdenum mines in Colorado, we produce molybdenum concentrates at certain of our North America copper mines and at our Cerro Verde copper mine in Peru.

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