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| TABLE 4 | |||||||||
| TWENTY-FIVE LEADING METAL AND INDUSTRIAL MINERAL MINES AND QUARRIES IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2007, | |||||||||
| IN ORDER OF OUTPUT OF CRUDE ORE1 | |||||||||
| Name of mine, quarry | |||||||||
| or operation2 | State | Operator | Commodity | Mining method | |||||
| Metal: | |||||||||
| Morenci | Arizona | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. | Copper� | Open pit. | |||||
| Eastern Nevada operations3 | Nevada | Newmont Mining Corp. | Gold� | Open pit and stoping. | |||||
| Bingham Canyon | Utah | Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. | Copper-molybdenum� | Open pit. | |||||
| Betze-Post | Nevada | Barrick Gold Corp. | Gold� | Open pit and underground.� | |||||
| Cortez | do. | do. | do. | Open pit. | |||||
| Bagdad | Arizona | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. | Copper-molybdenum� | Do. | |||||
| Chino | New Mexico | do. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Sierrita | Arizona | do. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Minntac | Minnesota | United States Steel Corp. | Iron ore | Do. | |||||
| Ray | Arizona | Asarco LLC | Copper� | Do. | |||||
| Ruby Hill | Nevada | Barrick Gold Corp. | Gold� | Do. | |||||
| Hibbing Taconite� | Minnesota | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | |||||
| Bald Mountain | Nevada | Barrick Gold Corp. | Gold� | Do. | |||||
| Round Mountain | do. | Round Mountain Gold Corp. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Tyrone | New Mexico | Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. | Copper� | Do. | |||||
| Cresson | Colorado | Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. | Gold� | Do. | |||||
| Keewatin Taconite� | Minnesota | United States Steel Corp. | Iron ore | Do. | |||||
| Fort Knox� | Alaska | Kinross Gold Corp. | Gold� | Do. | |||||
| Marigold | Nevada | Goldcorp Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Tilden� | Michigan | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | |||||
| Continental Pit | Montana | Montana Resources | Copper-molybdenum� | Do. | |||||
| United Taconite | Minnesota | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | |||||
| Northshore� | do. | do. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Empire� | Michigan | do. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Robinson | Nevada | Quadra Mining Ltd. | Copper-molybdenum� | Do. | |||||
| Industrial mineral: | |||||||||
| �� Florida mines (five) | Florida | The Mosaic Co. | Phosphate rock | Do. | |||||
| �� Swift Creek | do. | PCS Phosphate Co., Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� South Pasture | do. | CF Industries, Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� White Rock | do. | Vecellio & Grogan, Inc. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | |||||
| �� Georgetown | Texas | Texas Crushed Stone Co., Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Aurora | North Carolina | PCS Phosphate Co., Inc. | Phosphate rock | Open pit. | |||||
| �� F.E.C. Quarry | Florida | CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | |||||
| �� McCook 378 | Illinois | Vulcan Materials Co. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Beckmann�� | Texas | Martin Marietta Aggregates | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Thornton Quarry | Illinois | Lehigh Hanson | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Mosaic Potash Carlsbad | New Mexico | The Mosaic Co. | Potash | Stoping. | |||||
| �� Balcones Plant | Texas | CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | |||||
| �� Ste. Genevieve Quarry | Missouri | Tower Rock Stone Co. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Chico Quarry | Texas | Martin Marietta Aggregates | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Hunter Quarry | do. | Hunter Industries, Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Brooksville� | Florida | CEMEX S.A.B. de C.V. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Pennsuco Quarry | do. | Titan Atlantic LLC� | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Portable� | Utah | Oldcastle Materials, Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Dupont Pit | Washington | California Portland Cement Co. | Sand and gravel, construction | Open pit. | |||||
| �� Servtex | Texas | Lehigh Hanson | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | |||||
| �� South Hansen Pit | Utah | Geneva Rock Products, Inc. | Sand and gravel, construction | Open pit. | |||||
| �� Millville� | West Virginia | Holcim/Aggregate Industries | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | |||||
| �� TXI Mill Creek Quarry | Oklahoma | Texas Industries, Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Romeo Quarry� | Illinois | Lehigh Hanson | do. | Do. | |||||
| �� Cement Plant� | Texas | Texas Industries, Inc. | do. | Do. | |||||
| Do., do. Ditto. | |||||||||
| 1List includes private-sector operations only; excludes U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service operations. | |||||||||
| 2Where data are not reported for individual mining operations, ranking is on the basis of production as reported for a group of operations. | |||||||||
| 3Includes Carlin Mines complex, Carlin East Mine, Deep Post Mine, Gold Quarry Mine, Leeville Mine, Lone Tree complex, Midas Mine,� | |||||||||
| Pete Mine, Phoenix Mine, Twin Creeks Mine, and Turquoise Ridge Mine; ore was mined from nine open pits and five underground mines.� | |||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program