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| TABLE 4 | ||||||||
| TWENTY-FIVE LEADING METAL AND INDUSTRIAL MINERAL MINES AND QUARRIES IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2006, | ||||||||
| IN ORDER OF OUTPUT OF CRUDE ORE1 | ||||||||
| Name of mine, quarry | ||||||||
| or operation2 | State | Operator | Commodity | Mining method | ||||
| Metal: | ||||||||
| Morenci | Arizona | Phelps Dodge Corp. | Copper� | Open pit. | ||||
| Eastern Nevada operations3 | Nevada | Newmont Mining Corporation | Gold� | Open pit and stoping. | ||||
| Betze-Post | do. | Barrick Gold Corporation� | do. | Open pit and underground.� | ||||
| Bagdad | Arizona | Phelps Dodge Corp. | Copper-molybdenum� | Open pit. | ||||
| Chino | New Mexico | do. | do. | Do. | ||||
| Sierrita | Arizona | do. | do. | Do. | ||||
| Cortez | Nevada | Barrick Gold Corporation� | Gold� | Do. | ||||
| Minntac | Minnesota | United States Steel Corporation | Iron ore | Do. | ||||
| Bingham Canyon | Utah | Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. | Copper-molybdenum� | Do. | ||||
| Ray | Arizona | Asarco LLC4 | Copper� | Do. | ||||
| Marigold | Nevada | Goldcorp Inc. | Gold� | Do. | ||||
| Hibbing Taconite� | Minnesota | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | ||||
| �� Round Mountain� | Nevada | Round Mountain Gold Corp. | Gold� | Do. | ||||
| Cresson | Colorado | Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. | do. | Do. | ||||
| Tyrone | New Mexico | Phelps Dodge Corp. | Copper� | Do. | ||||
| Keewatin Taconite� | Minnesota | United States Steel Corporation | Iron ore | Do. | ||||
| Bald Mountain | Nevada | Barrick Gold Corporation� | Gold� | Do. | ||||
| Tilden� | Michigan | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | ||||
| Continental Pit | Montana | Montana Resources | Copper-molybdenum� | Do. | ||||
| Empire� | Michigan | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | ||||
| Northshore� | Minnesota | do. | do. | Do. | ||||
| Robinson | Nevada | Quadra Mining Ltd. | Copper-molybdenum� | Do. | ||||
| United Taconite | Minnesota | Cleveland-Cliffs Inc | Iron ore | Do. | ||||
| Fort Knox� | Alaska | Kinross Gold Corporation | Gold� | Do. | ||||
| Golden Sunlight | Montana | Barrick Gold Corporation� | do. | Do. | ||||
| Industrial mineral: | ||||||||
| �� Florida mines (seven) | Florida | The Mosaic Company | Phosphate rock | Do. | ||||
| �� White Rock | do. | Vecellio & Grogan, Inc. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| �� South Pasture | do. | CF Industries, Inc. | Phosphate rock | Open pit. | ||||
| �� Swift Creek | do. | PCS Phosphate Co., Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Kingston Quarry | New Jersey | Trap Rock Industries, Inc. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| �� Aurora | North Carolina | PCS Phosphate Co., Inc. | Phosphate rock | Open pit. | ||||
| �� F.E.C. Quarry | Florida | Rinker Materials Corporation | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| �� Georgetown | Texas | Texas Crushed Stone Co., Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Balcones Plant | do. | Cemex, Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Moore's Station | New Jersey | Trap Rock Industries, Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Pennsuco Quarry | Florida | Titan Atlantic LLC� | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Alico Quarry | do. | Rinker Materials Corporation | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� McCook 378 | Illinois | Vulcan Materials Co. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Thornton Quarry | do. | Hanson Building Materials America, Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Great Salt Lake Plant | Utah | Great Salt Lake Minerals Corporation | Potash | Pumping/solar evaporation. | ||||
| �� Ste. Genevieve Quarry | Missouri | Tower Rock Stone Co. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| �� Mosaic Potash Carlsbad | New Mexico | The Mosaic Company | Potash | Stoping. | ||||
| �� Chico Quarry | Texas | Martin Marietta Aggregates | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| �� White Rock-South | Florida | Vecellio & Grogan, Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Bauerly Brothers, Inc. | Minnesota | MDU Resources Group, Inc. | Sand and gravel, construction | Open pit. | ||||
| �� Stoneport Quarry | Michigan | Lafarge North America, Inc. | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| �� OMYA California, Inc. | California | OMYA Industries, Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� PBA Quarry | Florida | Palm Beach Aggregates, Inc. | do. | Do. | ||||
| �� Perkins | California | A. Teichert & Son, Inc. | Sand and gravel, construction | Open pit. | ||||
| �� Clinton Point� | New York | Oldcastle, Inc./Materials Group | Stone, crushed | Quarry. | ||||
| 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, Leeville Mine startup, Lone Tree complex, Midas Mine, Phoenix Mine startup, Twin Creeks Mine and Turquoise� | ||||||||
| Ridge Mine; ore was mined from nine open pits and five underground mines. | ||||||||
| 4Formerly ASARCO Incorporated. | ||||||||
Source: United States Geological Survey Mineral Resources Program