July 30, 2021 - The United Way of Southeast Louisiana recently announced Freeport-McMoRan ranked fifth on its 10 Most Generous Workplaces for 2020-2021.

July 22, 2021 - PT Freeport Indonesia (PT-FI), in partnership with The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and the South Australian Museum, discovered a new frog species in Mimika Regency, Papua, Indonesia.

Named Litoria lubisi, this species of large green tree frog is in the same family as Litoria infratrenata. The discovery of the new species was officially published in the international journal Zootaxa.

July 20, 2021 - When the worst of twin wildfires approached the doorstep of Globe-Miami in Central Arizona and the company’s Miami operations on June 6, Freeport-McMoRan had one unified response to calls for help from firefighters, agencies, community members and employees: “Whatever you need.”

For Arizona State Forestry Battalion Chief Burrell Teague, it was Freeport delivering on a Type I Fire Engine and crew from Morenci and water trucks from Miami ops at a time when the fires had closed highway access and severely limited the ability to bring in firefighting resources. 

July 16, 2021 - Nearly seven weeks after the 150-acre Spur Fire ripped through Bagdad and reduced multiple homes to rubble, Freeport-McMoRan is moving swiftly to replace company homes lost in the blaze to expedite recovery efforts, even as scars remain fresh for many.

Stories of pandemonium around the May 27 event are many: residents frantically banging on doors to evacuate neighbors as flames barreled down on their own homes and company water tankers dousing homes to keep flames at bay – all occurring as firefighters and air tankers battled the blaze from the ground and sky.

July 9, 2021 - With the number of COVID-19 cases surging in southern Peru near where Cerro Verde operates, the mine is providing oxygen cylinders and oxygen concentrators and their accessories to health centers in the Arequipa Region.

July 2, 2021 - At 2,080 pounds, the Liberty Bell has long secured its place as a national symbol of freedom, equally as celebrated on the Fourth of July as the copper-laden Statue of Liberty.

As the country prepares to celebrate the 245th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, here’s a little history about the copper-rich Liberty Bell.