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Location DB > United States > Arizona > Morenci > Phelps Dodge Mine > Mine, Processing mill, and smelter. > Morenci, Arizona 001.jpg

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Mill upper center, smelter is the big black building with the smokestack, power house is the yellowish brick buliding behind smelter, rail car repair shop is in the right center,slag dump is at the lower right, waste water treatment plant in at the lower left, And in the upper right is a leaching pit.The leaching liquid collects at the bottom of the slope, in a pool about 400 feet below the leaching ponds.It's then piped up to holding tanks, where the copper, and other minerals are extracted, and the leaching chemicals are recycled, and used again.
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