Bagdad Mine

The Bagdad Mine is a copper sulfide and copper mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 3,412 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Bagdad Mine
Secondary: Bagdad
Secondary: Bagdad Copper Corp.

Commodity

Primary: Copper Sulfide
Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Lead
Secondary: Zinc
Secondary: Semiprecious Gemstone
Secondary: Titanium, Metal
Secondary: Rhodium
Secondary: Molybdenum
Secondary: Silver

Location

State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Eureka District

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

Type: Patented

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: PHELPS DODGE CORP
Info Year: 2009
Years: 1999 - 2006

Owner Name: Freeport McMoran
Home Office: One North Central Avenue Phoenix AZ 85004 United States
Info Year: 2009
Years: 2006 -

Owner Name: Cyprus Copper Co.
Home Office: Arizona
Info Year: 1996
Years: 1994 -

Owner Name: Cyprus Amax Minerals Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Colorado
Info Year: 1996

Production

Year: 2002
Mined: 38929000.000 mt
Material type: Ore milled - 17,947,000 mt at 0.43% Cu, yielding 62,100 mt of copper from concentrates. Ore added to leach pile - 298,000 mt at 0.29% Cu. Electrowon Cu - 14,200 mt. Phelps Dodge 2002 10K, pp 9-11.
Year: 2001
Mined: 57770000.000 mt
Material type: Phelps Dodge 2001 10k, pp. 6-7.
Year: 1999
Mined: 5557000.000 mt
Material type: Phelps Dodge 1999 10K pp. 8-9.
Year: 2000
Mined: 25752000.000 mt
Material type: Phelps Dodge 2000 10K, pp. 6-7.
Year: 1998
Mined: 27000000.000 mt
Material type: Cyprus Amax 1998 10K, pp. 3-4.
Year: 1997
Mined: 27000000.000 mt
Material type: 29 M tonnes ore processed. Cyprus Amax 1997 10K, pp. 3-4.
Year: 1995
Mined: 28000000.000 mt
Material type: 31 million tonnes ore processed. Cyprus Amax 1996 10K, pp. 2-3
Year: 1996
Mined: 27000000.000 mt
Material type: Cyprus Amax 1997 10K, pp 3-4.
Description: Annual Mo Prod. M Lb Mo Content 10 M Lb Mo Content
Year: 1994
Mined: 26000000.000 mt
Material type: 36 million tonnes milled. Cyprus Amax 1994 10K, pp. 2-3.
Description: Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1993
Mined: 25200000.000 mt
Material type: 23,700,000 tonnes ore milled. Cyprus Amax 1993 10K, pp. 7-8.
Description: 104,700 Mt Cu Prod., 3,540 Mt Mo Prod. 25200000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1992
Mined: 26300000.000 mt
Material type: 25,300,000 tonnes ore milled. Cyprus Amax 1993 10K, pp. 7-8.
Description: 99,610 Mt Cu Produced, 4,540 Mt Mo Prod. 26000000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1991
Mined: 24200000.000 mt
Description: 99,430 Mt Cu Produced, 5,310 Mt Mo Prod. 24200000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1990
Mined: 22390000.000 mt
Description: 97,570 Mt Cu Produced, 3,990 Mt Mo Prod 22390000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1989
Description: 90,080 Mt Cu Produced, 3,950 Mt Mo Prod 20720000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1988
Description: 90,990 Mt Cu Produced, 2,900 Mt Mo Prod 20050000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1987
Description: 82,870 Mt Cu Prod; 2,761 Mt Mo Produced 19100000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1986
Description: 78,840 Mt Cu Prod; 2,782 Mt Mo Produced 17919000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1985
Description: 79,810 Mt Cu Produced, 2,238 Mt Mo Prod. 17199000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1984
Description: 23 Mt Cu Prod, Mine Closed Most Of 1984 1733000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1983
Description: 73,500 Mt Cu Prod; 1,327 Mt Mo Produced 17792000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1982
Description: 78,583 Mt Cu Produced, 1,488 Mt Mo Prod. 17468000 Mtpy Ore Mined
Year: 1981
Description: Total Ore Mined 13420900 Metric Tons For The Year
Year: 1980
Description: Total Ore Mined 13771700 Metric Tons For The Year
Year: 1979
Description: Total Ore Mined 13238700 Metric Tons For The Year
Year: 1978
Description: Total Ore Mined 12279700 Metric Tons For The Year
Year: 1977
Description: Total Ore Mined 12382200 Metric Tons For The Year
Year: 2003
Mined: 44393000.000 mt
Material type: Ore milled - 23,680,000 mt at 0.43% Cu, yielding 74,800 mt Cu from concentrates. No ore added to leach pile. Electrowon Cu 22,200 mt. Phelps Dodge 2003 10K, pp. 7-8. Phelps Dodge 2006 10K, p. 15.
Year: 2004
Mined: 55514000.000 mt
Material type: Ore milled - 24,636,000 mt at 0.41% Cu, yielding 74,500 mt Cu from concentrate. Ore added to the leach pile - 21,434,000 mt at 0.09% Cu. Electrowon Cu - 25,400 mt. Phelps Dodge 2006 10K, p. 13-15.
Year: 2005
Mined: 58144000.000 mt
Material type: Ore milled - 24,214,000 mt at 0.4% Cu, yielding 76,900 mt Cu from concentrate. Ore added to the leach pile - 21,643,000 mt at 0.1% Cu. Electrowon Cu produced - 14,300 mt. Phelps Dodge 2006 10K, p. 1
Year: 2006
Mined: 57738000.000 mt
Material type: Ore milled - 25,243,000 mt at 0.33% Cu, yielding 53,300 mt Cu from concentrate. Ore added to the leach pile - 25,882,000 mt at 0.14% Cu. Electrowon Cu - 21,800 mt. Phelps Dodge 2006 10K, pp. 13-15.
Year: 2007
Material type: FCX 2010 10K, p. 23.
Year: 2008
Material type: FCX 2010 10K, pp. 7, 23.
Year: 2009
Material type: FCX 2010 10K, pp. 7, 23.
Year: 2010
Material type: FCX 2011 10K, pp. 7, 23.

Deposit

Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Porphyry Cu
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Flotation
Year First Production: 1906
Discovery Year: 1882
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Porphyry Cu

Orebody

Form: BLANKET

Not available

Structure

Type: L
Structure: Two intersecting shear zones

Type: L
Structure: NE Trending Mountain Spring Fault

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: sericitization, argillization

Rocks

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Host
Description: Occurs as one of several small stocks
Age Type: Host Rock
Age in Years: 70.900000+-
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Description: Dikes of diorite porphyry and quartz-monzonite
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Description: Rhyolite tuff
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Paleocene
Age Old: Late Cretaceous

Name: Meta-Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Description: Intruded into Bridle Formation
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Mesoproterozoic

Name: Andesite
Role: Associated
Description: Andesites, amphibolites and quartz -sericite schists
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Mesoproterozoic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: Ore contains 20 ppm rhenium and about 0.3% rutile

Materials

Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Cuprite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Azurite
Ore: Silver
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Tetrahedrite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): This Mas Property File Also Includes Msha.Dbf #0201738 - Bagdad Millsite. Property Update Jul 1987. Site Visit 4-5-88. Full Cost Evaluation 7-88.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Assay Grade In Reserves Record 2 And Reserves Record 3 Actually Reflects The Acid-Soluble (Recoverable) Copper Content.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Ag Grade In Matrix 1, Column 1, Is An Estimate Derived From Company Supplied Data. M1c1=R5 Matrix 1 Column 1 Equals Reserve Column 5. Matrix 2 Represents The Dump Leach Reserve. The Grade Is The Acid Soluable Copper Content. . M9c5=M2c1 Matrix 9 Column 5 Equals Matrix 2 Column 1.

Comment (Production): Product C Output Is 18,143.88 Kg Copper Per Day.

Comment (Production): Actual Sx-Ew Feed Grade Is 1.1316 Grams Per Liter.

Comment (Economic Factors): Actual Sx-Ew Feed Grade Is 1.1316 Grams Per Liter.

Comment (Identification): Merged data from Bagdad Mine- Deposit ID 10027594

Comment (Reserve-Resource): Oxide Resource Is 50 Million Mt @ 0.27 % Cu (Demo) Or 125 Million Mt (Ident). Copper Evaluation Has Priority At His Property (In Which Silver Is Byproduct). Ditto Mineral Park, Mission-San Xavier, Oracle Ridge, Pima, And Silver Bell (Float). Per Mj 9/18/87 Bagdad Is Producing Over 5mlb Of Byproduct Mo/Yr. Bagdad Mined 26 Million Mt Ore In 1992 And Produced 99,610 Mt Copper Of Which 8.8% Was Produced From Dump Leach/Sx-Ew Operation. 1994 Data From Mining Business Digest, May 1994, P. 5. The Silver Adit Grade Was Not Updated In 1996.

References

Reference (Deposit): Cyprus Bagdad'S $240 Million Expansion Nearing Rated Production. Pay Dirt Magazine. March 1978. P 1,4-9.

Reference (Deposit): Arizona Pay Dirt. Standard Oil Merges Cyprus Into Amoco. July 1980, P. 74.

Reference (Deposit): Apland,Ken. Cyprus Bagdad Copper Company 1970-1977. Historic Highlights. Arizona A.I.M.E. Spring Meeting, Bagdad,Ariz. April 1978. 5 Pp.

Reference (Deposit): Bagdad Mine Story. Arizona Bureau Of Mineral Resources (Unpublished) April 1957, 7 Pp.

Reference (Production): Wakefield, Robert E Cyprus Bagdad Copper Company. Mechanical Description Of The Cyprus Bagdad 40 000 Tpd Concentrator. Arizona A.I.M.E. Spring Meeting. Bagdad, Arizona. May 1978. 13 Pp.

Reference (Geology): Medhi, P.K. (1978) Recent geological developments at the Bagdad porphyry copper deposits, Eureka mining district, Yavapai County, Arizona [abs.], in Jenney, J.P., and Hauck, H.R., eds., Proceedings of the Porphyry Copper Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, March 18-20, 1976: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 11, p. 79.

Reference (Geology): Wilson, E.D., et al (1950), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part I, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 156: 122-125.

Reference (Production): Winslow, David G Cyprus Bagdad Copper Company Molybdenum Circuit. Arizona A.I.M.E. Spring Meeting. Bagdad, Arizona. April 1978. 3 Pp.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): Niemi, L. Cyprus Bagdad: Successful Expansion Creates "State-Of-The-Art" Copper-Moly Producer In Northwest Arizona. EandMj, August 1980, Pp. 56-63.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): Standard Oil Company (Indiana). 1982 Annual Report, Financial And Statistical Supplement. P. 34.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): Cyprus-Amax Minerals Co. Sec Form 10-K Rept, 12/31/93, P. 7.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): Cyprus Amax Minerals Co., 1994 10-K, P.2.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): Cyprus Amax Minerals Co., 1995 10-K, P.2-3.

Reference (Deposit): Bagdad Considering Five Fold Expansion, Concentrator And New Smelter. Pay Dirt Magazine. April 24, 1972. P 1,4-5.

Reference (Production): Austin, Alfred G Cyprus Bagdad Copper Company Grinding Section. Arizona A.I.M.E. Spring Meeting, Bagdad,Arizona,May 1978. 19 Pp.

Reference (Production): Hernandez, Ramon And Ken Apland Cyprus Bagdad Copper Company Tailings Disposal System. Arizona A.I.M.E. Spring Meeting. Bagdad, Arizona. May 1978. 9 Pp.

Reference (Production): Jackson, Paul E Cyprus Bagdad Copper Company. Electrical And Instrumentation. Arizona A.I.M.E. Spring Meeting. Bagdad, Arizona. May 1978. 15 Pp.

Reference (Deposit): Bagdad'S Expansion Is Largest Single Project Ever Undertaken By Cyprus Mines. Pay Dirt Magazine. April 26, 1976. P 6-7.

Reference (Deposit): Bonnis,R J And J E Nelson, Cyprus Bagdad'S $240 Million Expansion Boosts Production To 40 000 Stpd. Mining Engr.April 1978, P 351-354.

Reference (Deposit): World Mining. Sept. 1981, P. 49, and Sept. 1982, P. 69. (1977-1981 Production)

Reference (Production): Nickel News. Issue 32/52. 8/6/97. P.12.

Reference (Production): Bagdad Copper Builds Sx Plant For Pregnant Leach Solution. World Mining Magazine. May 1969. P 21.

Reference (Production): Jones, Raymond L Cyprus Bagdad'S Solvent Exchange Process. Mining Engineer. September 1977. P 38-42.

Reference (Production): How Bagdad Uses Lix To Recover Copper From Dump Leach Solutions. World Mining Magazine. April 1971. P 46-48.

Reference (Production): Mcgarr, H J Solvent Extraction Stars In Making Ultrapure Copper. Chemical Engineer. August 10,1970. P 82-84.

Reference (Production): Skillings, David N Bagdad Copper Corporation Dedicates Cathode Refinery In Arizona. Skillings Mining Review.December 19,1970. P 1,8-10.

Reference (Deposit): Burgin, L. B. The Mineral Industry Of Arizona. Ch. In Bumines Minerals Yearbook 1981 (Centennial Edition), V. 2,Pp. 55-73.

Reference (Deposit): Standard Oil Company (Indiana). 1980 Annual Report. Pp. 19

Reference (Deposit): And 45, 1981 Annual Report. P. 20.

Reference (Deposit): World Mining. Arizona, In What'S Going On In World Mining November 1981, P. 80.

Reference (Deposit): Skillings' Mining Review, 5-22-93, P.4-7.

Reference (Deposit): Pay Dirt, 9-93, P.4a-5a.

Reference (Deposit): The Mining Record, 8-93, P.22.

Reference (Deposit): Cyprus Amax Minerals Company News Release, 1-27-94.

Reference (Deposit): The Mining Record, 7-12-95, P.7.

Reference (Geology): Barra F, Ruiz J, Mathur R, Titley S 2003 - A Re-Os study of sulfide minerals from the Bagdad porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, northern Arizona, USA: in Mineralium Deposita v38 pp 585-596

Reference (Geology): Anderson, C.A. (1950), Alteration and metallization in the Bagdad porphyry copper deposit, Arizona, Economic Geology: 45: 609-628.

Reference (General): Damon, P.E. and Mauger, R.L., 1966, Epeirogeny-orogeny viewed from the Basin and Range Province; Society of Mining Engineers, AIME Transactions, v. 235, p. 99-112.

Reference (Age): Barra, F., Ruiz, J., Ryan, M. and Titley, S.R., 2002, A Re-Os study of sulfide minerals from the Bagdad porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, northern Arizona, USA; Mineralium Deposita, v. 38, p. 585-596.

Reference (Geology): Titley, S. R., 1993, Characteristics of porphyry copper occurrence in the American Southwest; in Kirkham, R.V., Sinclair, W.D., Thorpe, R.I. and Duke, J.M., Mineral Deposit Modeling, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 40, p. 433-464.

Reference (Geology): Anderson, C.A., Scholz, E.A., and Strobell, J.D., Jr., 1955, Geology and ore deposits of the Bagdad area, Yavapai County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 278, 103 p.

Reference (Age): Bouse, R.M., Ruiz, J., Titley, S.R., Tosdal, R.M., and Wooden, J.L., 1999, Lead isotope compositions of Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary igneous rocks and sulfide minerals in Arizona: implications for the sources of plutons and metals in porphyry copper

Reference (Age): McCandless, T.E., and Ruiz, J., 1993, Rhenium-osmium evidence for regional mineralization in southwestern North America: Science, v. 261, p. 1282-1286.

Reference (Geology): Titley, S.R., 1982, Some features of tectonic history and ore genesis in the Pima mining district, in Titley, S.R., ed., Advances in geology of the porphyry copper deposits, southwestern North America: Tucson, University of Arizona Press, p. 387?406.

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