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Copper mining and exploration companies

Copper has the symbol Cu and the atomic number 29. It is a ductile and malleable metal with high electrical and thermal conductivity. It belongs to the element group of transition metals. Copper is one of the few metals to naturally occur as an uncompounded mineral. Copper is a metal that reacts with oxygen slowly to form a layer of copper oxide on copper metal. However, in contrast to the oxidation of iron by wet air that the layer formed by the reaction of air with copper has a protective effect against further corrosion.
A number of countries, such as Chile and the United States, still have sizable reserves of the metal which are extracted through large open pit mines, though high demand relative to supply has caused a price spike in the 2000s. In 2005, Chile was the top mine producer of copper with at least one-third world share followed by the USA, Indonesia and Peru.

To mine copper, the first step is to blast the copper ore from a open pit mine, then loaded and transported to the primary crushers. Then the ore is crushed and screened, with the fine sulfide ore going to froth flotation cells for recovery of copper. The coarser ore goes to the heap leach, where the copper is subjected to a dilute sulfuric acid solution to dissolve the copper. Then the leach solution containing the dissolved copper goes through solvent extraction. This process concentrates and purifies the copper leach solution. The concentrated copper solution is dissolved in sulphuric acid and sent to the electrolytic cells for recovery as copper plates (cathodes). From the copper cathodes, it is manufactured into wire or appliances.

Copper uses

Due to copper's high electrical conductivity and malleability, there are a plethora of uses for it. These include electronics, such as electromagnets, cathode ray tubes, and integrated circuits. It has also been used in architecture as a water-proof roofing material. Additionally, it can be used in households, such as plumbing fittings, pipes, frying pans, and guttering. It is also used as a component of coins, and in biomedical applications as bacteria will not grow on copper surfaces due to it being biostatic. So it is often used in hospitals, as well as to line the hull of ships to prevent barnacles attaching themselves.



AMT International Mining Corporation
http://www.amtmining.com/
AMT International Mining Corporation

Aumega Discoveries Ltd.
http://www.aumegadiscoveries.com/
Aumega Discoveries Ltd. (TSX.V: AUM) is a Canadian based junior resource Company publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company is focused on the exploration and development of both advanced and early stage mineral projects throughout British Columbia.

AZCO Mining, Inc - Exploration - Acquisition - Technology
http://www.azco.com/
Strategic acquisitions in the mining markets, building a cash-flow driven resource company. Mica mining and production.

Baja Mining
http://www.bajamining.com/
The Boleo Project is an advanced polymetallic (copper, cobalt, zinc) project located on tidewater on the east coast of the Baja Peninsula near Santa Rosalia, Baja Sur, Mexico. Baja Mining Corp. owns a 100% interest in the Boleo Project, free of any underlying royalty interests.

Bell Resources Corporation - Home Page - Thu Nov 11, 2004
http://www.bellresources.com/Home.html
Bell Resources Corporation is a junior mineral exploration and development company with an experienced team that is in the business of acquiring and developing or jointly developing properties on which substantial acquisition, exploration and development expenditures have been made and where there is either excellent exploration potential or a significant, exploitable resource.

Equinox Minerals Limited - Australia, Mining Exploration, Copper, Gold and Cobalt Exploration - Sweden, Zambia, Australian Mining, Exploration Programs
http://www.eqr.com.au/
Equinox Resources Limited mining exploration of copper, gold and cobalt exploration programs and facilities in Sweden, Zambia, Australian mining services and exploration

GME Resources
http://www.gme-resources.com.au/
GME is an active exploration company with strong potential upside in strategically located nickel, copper and gold prospects in Western Australia and Queensland.

Ivanhoe Mines Ltd
http://www.ivanhoe-mines.com/s/Home.asp
Ivanhoe Mines, with operations in the Asia Pacific region, is a producer of copper, gold and iron ore products.

Mineral Commodities Ltd
http://www.mineralcommodities.com.au/
Mineral Commodities Limited is a Perth based resource company.

South American Gold and Copper Company Limited
http://www.sagc.com/
South American Gold and Copper Company Ltd. is a gold and copper exploration company with projects in Chile and Peru. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange as SAG

Uintah Mountain Copper Company - natural hematite pigments
http://www.uintahred.com/
Natural red iron oxide pigments for specialty uses

Universal Resources Limited:
http://www.universalresources.com.au/
Universal Resources Limited is an Australian mineral exploration and development company with major exposure to copper and gold in the Mt Isa area of Queensland.

Apoquindo Minerals
http://www.apoquindominerals.com/
Apoquindo Minerals is a Canadian-based copper and mineral exploration company whose purpose is the acquisition and development of base and precious metal deposits in South America. Apoquindo Minerals Inc. (TSX.V:AQM) is lead by a seasoned management team with a solid track record of success in the Chilean copper industry. Juan Villarzu (Copper Man of the Year, 2006), Joszef Ambrus, Bruno Behn and Cesar Lopez are advancing and acquiring late stage copper and precious metal deposits in Chile.

Drills are currently turning on the Apoquindo Copper Oxide Project in Chile to confirm and expand the near surface historic resource estimate (12M tonnes > 1.2% Cu). Situated in the heart of the prolific Antofagasta Mining belt, the Apoquindo Project is near existing deposits, roads, power, water and producing mines. In addition, management is acquiring grass roots projects in Peru, conducting preliminary exploration and using creative business approaches to add shareholder value.


Beowulf Mining
http://www.beowulfmining.com/
Beowulf Mining PLC ('Beowulf') is focused primarily on the exploration and development of mineral deposits in Sweden. Beowulf is working on five projects in Northern Sweden which it considers have commercial potential. The areas are: Ruoutevare Iron Titanium Project, Kallak Iron Ore Claim, Grundtrask Gold Project, Ballek Copper Gold Project, Jokkmokk Copper Gold Project.

Beowulf Mining PLC ("Beowulf") is focused primarily on the exploration for world class iron, copper and gold deposits. Beowulf intends to gradually increase its exploration portfolio in Sweden and possibly other Scandinavian countries. To help expand its activities Beowulf will seek other joint venture partners.


Emmerson Resources
http://www.emmersonresources.com.au/
Emmerson Resources, dominant gold exploration and mining lease in Australia’s Tennant Creek Mineral Field. Tennant creek has extremely high-grade gold gold/copper deposits. A newly ASX listed (ERM) gold resource company that successfully raised A$20m for exploration. Has an aggressive exploration program and dominant ground position in the world class Tennant Creek Mineral Field. This field is characterised by extremely high-grade gold & gold-copper deposits, with a historical production in excess of 5.5 million ounces of gold and 488,000 tonnes of copper.
Is applying new exploration concepts and technologies to unlock the next generation of gold and copper deposits. Owns the only carbon-in-pulp gold plant in the region- the Warrego Gold Plant, located 35 kilometres north-west of Tennant Creek. The plant has an annual production capacity of 300,000 tonnes and was last operated in December 2005, following complete refurbishment in early 2003.

Intex Resources
http://www.intexresources.com/
Intex Resources is a dynamic new company that is primarily focused on non-precious metal and mineral projects. The Company’s main asset is the world class Mindoro Nickel Project, located on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. Mindoro Nickel is one of the largest nickel laterite deposits in the world, and it has the potential to be one of the best.

Crew Minerals is pleased to report that it has secured exclusive rights to a range of promising zinc-copper (Zn-Cu) prospects in Norway, as a result of its geophysical, structural and geological review of the Trondheim and Røros metallogenic provinces. The acquisitions are in line with the Company’s declared strategy of becoming a significant base metals and minerals mining company through responsible development, proactive acquisitions, and innovative exploration.


Resolution Copper Mining
http://www.resolutioncopper.com/
The Resolution Project is located in the historic Pioneer Mining District three miles east of Superior, Arizona. Exploration from 2001 to 2003 indicates what may be one of the largest copper resources ever found in North America and possibly worldwide. The orebody rests more than a mile below the surface and appears to be of good grade. In May 2008, Rio Tinto, Resolution Copper’s parent company, announced that Resolution Copper had completed sufficient drilling on the deposit to report an Inferred Resource* (see footnote) of 1.34 billion tons containing 1.51 percent copper and 0.040 percent molybdenum.
Mining projects are completed in stages, and our project is now in the "pre-feasibility" phase. The work scheduled for the next several years includes dewatering the former Magma mine and sinking an exploratory shaft to 7,000 feet below the surface, as well as preparing numerous studies to evaluate technical, legal and environmental issues and to prepare our mining plan. To achieve our target of commencing production by 2019, there is a tremendous amount of preparatory work to complete.

Sygun Copper Mine Attractions in Snowdonia North Wales
http://www.syguncoppermine.co.uk/
The Sygun Copper Mine is a family attraction situated in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park and is open most of the year. Come and see Snowdonia's famous stalactites and stalagmites and learn and discover with our audio-visual presentations and multi-lingual interpretation.

The Sygun Copper Mine is an excellent venue for groups and includes many fantastic activities such as 'Gold-panning' (seasonal) and is the venue for the 'British Adventure Racing Championship 2003' to be shown on Channel 4 and Sky TV.

The Sygun Copper Mines have been featured on the BBC2 program 'This Land' and is a member of the Attractions of Snowdonia and a member of Wales Underground.


Wales Underground - Great Orme Copper Mines
http://www.wales-underground.org.uk/
The Great Orme’s Head, Llandudno, is an isolated promontory of Carboniferous Limestone that rises to nearly 225 metres above sea level. Great Orme Mines are situated within the picturesque surroundings of the Great Orme Country Park only one mile from the centre of Llandudno. Copper has been mined here for 4,000 years and the site is the only Bronze Age copper mine open to the public in the world.
There is a visitor centre, open to non-mine visitors, with displays depicting life and times in the Bronze Age together with archaeological finds and artefacts. An audiovisual presentation sets the scene for your exploration. of the underground workings. One section of the mine is open for you to see for yourselves a small part of this vast underground mining complex. The visitor route follows some of the 35 mineral veins that were mined on the Great Orme Exploring the 3,500 year old passages.

The tunnels eventually reach a point where you can view a large and impressive Bronze Age cavern. Numerous animal bones have been found in this cavern together with two human collar bones, which are now on display in the Visitor’s Centre. You can then walk around the prehistoric landscape uncovered in 1987 and look down the 470 foot Vivian’s shaft that was used in the 19th century for both pumping water and winding up the ore. A small exhibition shows you how our ancestors turned rock into metal.


Copper Mining & Processing Information
http://www.hoovers.com/
Use Hoover's Copper Mining & Processing information to obtain Copper Mining & Processing companies and related industry news. Companies that explore for, develop, mine, process, and/or provide mining support activities related to copper.

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Acero Martin Exploration Inc.
http://www.aceromartinexp.com/
Acero-Martin Exploration Inc. is a publicly held resource company based in Vancouver, Canada.  Acero-Martin is rapidly building a leading gold and copper exploration company with a focus on Peru. The Company’s key project, Pinaya, is located approximately 775 kilometres southeast of the city of Lima. Pinaya, wholly owned by the Company, is one of Peru’s premier gold and copper exploration prospects. Pinaya is 100% controlled by Acero-Martin and consists of 28 contiguous mineral claims totalling approximately 14,000 hectares (˜140 km²).

Acero-Martin believes that there is great potential to expand the current resource base and prove up a major deposit at Pinaya. The company’s exploration efforts are bolstered by robust prices and fundamentals for metals, particularly gold and copper, where demand continues to exceed mine supply.


Cudeco Ltd
http://www.cudeco.com.au/
CuDECO Ltd is a mining company that specialises in copper exploration and production. In 1995 the company purchased a mining tenement known as EPM 13049 which covers an area of some 2200 hectares. The EPM encompasses numerous old historical copper mines which have produced high grade ore.

In 2006 the company discovered a previously undiscovered zone of copper, cobalt and gold mineralisation which has a strike length today of over 1250m. The company is currently drilling the 1250m length of the mineralised zone which was named Las Minerale. In addition there are five subordinate shears that run sub-parallel to Las Minerale with a width of over 1km. This zone is known as Central Rocklands and Southern Rocklands. The project within the EPM 13049 is collectively known as the “Rocklands Group Copper Project”.


Geological Society
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/
In its heyday in the second half of the 18th Century, the Ecton Copper Mine, overlooking the Manifold Valley near Hulme End, was the deepest and one of the most productive copper mines in the country.

Now, a new charitable company, the Ecton Mine Educational Trust, has been formed to enable educational and local community groups to resume use of study facilities at the historic mines. Nowadays visiting parties of students are once again taught how to identify a variety of minerals and are taken underground.


Matrix Metals
http://www.matrixmetals.com.au/
Matrix Metals vision is to grow into a mid tier, long term, copper producer based on the development and exploitation of its copper assets located in the world class Mt Isa base metals province. This plan will be achieved by exploitation of the company’s existing resource and reserve inventory and also through the achievement of ongoing exploration success on the largely unexplored, tenement portfolio.

Matrix has currently identified two tenement areas, namely the Leichhardt Tenement Area (which incorporates the Leichhardt Copper Cathode Production plant and the Mt Watson orebody) and the Cloncurry Tenement Area. Both projects are located in the world class Mt Isa base metals province of North West Queensland, Australia.


Mineral Gallery - The Arizona Copper Mines
http://mineral.galleries.com/
The minerals from the copper mines of Arizona, USA specifically the great mines of Bisbee, Tiger, Tombstone, Morenci, Mammoth and Ajo, Arizona, are the result of the supergene enrichment and hydrothermal alteration of a porphyry copper sulfide intrusion. Although Arizona is well known for copper minerals, those copper mines and other mines in the state have produced ores of silver, lead, molybdenum, tin, manganese, vanadium, uranium, zinc and gold.

The typical Arizona copper deposits originate from the middle Mesozoic to early Cenozoic with igneous intrusions that are characterized as a porphyry copper. Although concentrated in Arizona similar intrusions produced ore deposits in New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico. The intrusions ran into a variety of host country rock and subsequent shrinking from cooling as well as other events; have fractured and brecciated the country rocks and even the intrusions themselves.


AME Mineral Economics
http://www.ame.com.au/
AME Mineral Economics is a global firm of independent economists in the metal and mineral industries with research offices in Australia and affiliations in North America, South America, Africa and China. We specialise in all market and financial aspects of the aluminium, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, DRI/HBI, steel, lead, zinc, nickel and titanium mineral industries.
Our analysts are invariably technically qualified and usually have long experience with a major mining company. Consequently, our detailed economic evaluations of mines, beneficiation projects and end user plants are unrivalled.

Argo Exploration
http://www.argoexploration.com.au/
Argo Exploration is a multi-commodity exploration company that has a strong focus on two exploration licences in highly prospective locations that it considers has a substantial amount of potential for discovery. Argo's exploration areas are based in the heart of the Olympic Dam and Central Gawler regions in South Australia. These strategic land holdings have targeted exploration and drilling campaigns. The first license Intercept Hill is centrally located within the Olympic Dam IOCG province. Locally, it is at the centre of a cluster of IOCG deposits including Oak Dam, Winjabbie, Emmie Bluff and Carrapateena.

The second exploration license Toondulya is located within the Central Gawler Craton Gold Province at the southern end of Yarlbrinda Shear Zone. The Company has defined high priority target areas for gold and uranium and potential IOCG mineralization.


Copper Mines of Tasmania
http://www.cmt.com.au/
Mount Lyell Mine, located in Queenstown, Tasmania is a copper mine with more than 100 years of operation. First started in 1896, it was re opened by Copper Mines of Tasmania in 1995. Acquired by Sterlite Industries in 1999, Copper Mines of Tasmania (CMT) is a part of the fast growing Vedanta group of companies. Vedanta Resources Plc is a London listed metals and mining major with Aluminium, Copper and Zinc operations in the India, Zambia and Australia. Under Copper Mines of Tasmania, Mount Lyell remains a major contributor to the economy of the West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The Mount Lyell Mine has been in operation for over a century. At present, underground sub-level caving mining is being carried out at 900 meters below the original surface (450 meters below sea level). It has produced more than 1.4 million tonnes (Mt) of copper (Cu) and 43 tonnes of gold (Au) till date. Since its acquisition by Sterlite, its capacity has increased from 2.0 million tpa to 2.6 million tpa in 2005 - 06. It produces approx 30,000 tonnes per annum of contained copper (Cu) in concentrate.

CopperCo
http://www.copperco.com.au/
The Company's objective is to become a significant and independent copper producer. CopperCo is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and trades under the code ASX: CUO. The Company has consolidated approximately 2,500km2 of Mining Leases and Exploration Permits in the Mount Isa Block, making it a major tenement holder in the region. This consolidation has resulted in a coherent, multi-tenement package covering some 100km of strike length in the Western Succession, hosting several known copper oxide and sulphide resources and prospects and giving it the potential to simultaneously develop several projects.
The Company's extensive holdings in the Mount Isa region, strategically position CopperCo to pursue further acquisition opportunities that would consolidate the copper sector in Australia. At Lady Annie, the Company has completed a feasibility study which confirms an economic and technically viable Project based only on copper oxide resources with site cash operating costs of US$0.70 per pound of LME “A” grade copper, at nameplate capacity of 19,000 tonnes per annum to produce 114,000 tonnes cathode over initial 8 years. In May 2006, CopperCo completed a $46.7M placement to local and overseas institutions and high net worth individuals. The bulk of this equity will be used to partly finance the development of the Lady Annie Project.

Coppermoly
http://www.coppermoly.com.au/
Coppermoly is an explorer of copper-gold-molybdenum deposits on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Most surface exploration has been completed and widespread copper/gold mineralisation has been defined close to essential infrastructure.

Funds will be used to develop a resource with the aim of taking at least one of these projects to pre-feasibility. Papua New Guinea contains numerous major copper-gold-molybdenum deposits and produces 65 tonnes of gold and 200,000 tonnes of copper each year.


FCX-Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.
http://www.fcx.com/
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (“FCX”) is an international mining industry leader based in North America with large, long-lived, geographically diverse assets and significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum. FCX conducts its operations primarily through its principal operating subsidiaries, PT Freeport Indonesia, Phelps Dodge and Atlantic Copper.
PT Freeport Indonesia’s principal asset is the world-class Grasberg mine discovered in 1988. The Grasberg minerals district contains the world’s largest single copper reserve and world’s largest single gold reserve. PT Freeport Indonesia is also a 25 percent owner of PT Smelting, which operates a copper smelter and refinery in Gresik, Indonesia.

Legend Mining Limited
http://www.legendmining.com.au/
Legend Mining Limited ("Legend") is an Australian mining and exploration company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Legend's mission is to make high-impact mineral discoveries and to maximize shareholder benefit from those discoveries. The company is focused on creating shareholder value through the discovery of base metal and precious metal deposits at its three main project areas in Western Australia:
PILBARA: nickel-copper and zinc-copper
MT GIBSON: zinc-copper-gold
GUM CREEK: nickel-copper-platinum group elements

Moly Mines Ltd [ ASX\TSX-MOL ] : Corporate Info >> Directors
http://www.molymines.com/
Moly Mines Limited, through it's 100% owned subsidiary Moly Metals Australia Pty Ltd, is the 100% owner of the Spinifex Ridge Molybdenum\Copper Project – the world’s most advanced new primary molybdenum development project. Molybdenum is a high melting point alloying metal used primarily in iron, steels and superalloys to enhance hardenability, strength, wear and corrosion resistance. Approximately 80% of usage is in the production of various types of steel and alloys.

Ok Tedi Mining Limited
http://www.oktedi.com/
The Ok Tedi mine is a major producer of copper concentrate for the world smelting market. Ok Tedi Mining Limited is working with the people of the Western Province to help build a sustainable long-term future from the wealth that the mine has created. Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) is a large-scale, cost-competitive producer of copper concentrate in Papua New Guinea.
Ok Tedi Mining Limited directly employs nearly 2,000 people; more than 95 percent of these are Papua New Guineans. The company operates mining, milling and shipping facilities in the country's Western Province. Development of the mine took nearly eight years and cost $US1,400 million. Production of gold ore began in 1984. Copper concentrate production began in 1987.

Parys underground group
http://www.parysmountain.co.uk/
Parys mountain is the site of a bronze aged copper mine near Amlwch in Anglesey. Group members are very active in the exploration and conservation of the mine. Why not join us underground?

This web site contains information about the historic Parys mountain copper mines near Amlwch in Anglesey. These mines have been worked since the Bronze age, 3500 year's ago. During the 18 and 19 th century they were the largest copper mine in the world. The underground workings were last mined in the early part of the 20th century.


Redbank Mines Limited
http://www.redbankmines.com.au/
Redbank Mines Limited is an independent Australian based mining and exploration company with a focus on copper and gold. The Company’s principal assets are the Redbank Copper Project located in the Northern Territory in Australia and the Mt Kasi Gold Project located in Fiji. Both projects are 100% owned by the Company.

Redbank is committed to growth of shareholder value through successful project development and exploration and the application of modern ore processing technology and exploration techniques.


Syrah Resources Ltd
http://www.syrahresources.com.au/
Syrah Resources Limited (ASX Code: SYR) is an Australian resource company formed through the acquisition of a portfolio of exploration projects from Copper Strike Limited. Syrah Resources listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on 11 September 2007. The primary commodities of interest to Syrah are precious and base metals.

Syrah has five projects under exploration: Archie and Mackenzie, Queensland: Zinc and Copper; Levuka, Queensland: Copper and Gold; Mt. Lyndhurst, South Australia: Copper; Munna, Queensland: Copper and Gold; Norfolk, Queensland: Lead and Zinc.


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