December 2, 2022 - It didn’t take long for Brent Fletcher to gain an appreciation for the role the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep play in the ecosystem near Morenci’s operations in southeastern Arizona.
December 1, 2022 - A couple of worn-out wheel loaders combined with the company’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions created the perfect opportunity at the Tyrone, N.M., mine to test an innovative new machine that that can scoop bigger loads while cutting fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
November 22, 2022 - Macarena Gutiérrez, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer-Atlantic Copper in Huelva, Spain, has been named to the 2022 edition of the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.
November 18, 2022 - Multiple sightings of schoolchildren engaged in all manner of aberrant behaviors throughout southeastern Arizona’s Greenlee County have been summarily tied to Freeport-McMoRan and its longstanding, unabashed support of biodiversity.
During the last week of October, numerous reports included kids tearing up the ground to plant milkweed and agave; concocting mud balls out of dirt, seeds and steer manure; spying on birds along the Duncan bird trail; and even kicking around poor, defenseless pumpkins at a patch in Duncan.
October 28, 2022 - Raising children in tight-knit mining communities owned by Freeport-McMoRan inspired a Morenci mom, the wife of a company engineer, to write a children’s book about copper mining in a company town.
September 23, 2022 - A bridge closed because of recent floods was no match for resourceful New Mexico employees who answered the call to help ensure an area youth received her insulin.
The washed-out bridge made the stretch of New Mexican highway look like a computer-generated catastrophe for a disaster movie, but it was in fact very real, as were the swift heroics from Freeport-McMoRan’s New Mexico operations.
September 13, 2022 - Oscar Baca recently welcomed two “draft picks” otherwise known as interns into the Technology Center Tucson fold on the stage of a high school auditorium.
The annual event at San Miguel High School drew a nearly packed crowd, as student internships were announced in a sports-style “Draft Night” event for the 2022-2023 school year.
August 17, 2022 - When a sales expert takes time to compliment the health and safety record at a rod mill, that should demonstrate the impact 1,400 – and counting – injury-free days can have.
But it even goes beyond safety for Randy Nickle, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing-Phoenix, when it comes to talking about the Miami, Ariz., rod mill.
August 11, 2022 - Interns who spent the summer gaining real-world experience at Freeport sites throughout the United States wrapped up their studies recently with that all-too-intimidating taste of the professional world – the formal PowerPoint presentations of their work to their peers and company leaders.
August 5, 2022 - What the Cobre Valley Institute of Technology needed in a hurry was a pair of substitute welding instructors to take over its 18-month certification program, and two welding aces from Freeport’s Miami, Ariz., smelter quickly stepped up to teach night classes.
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