Phelps Dodge Industrial Mining Complex (Freeport-McMoran)
Multiple copper mining sites within southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona
- Date/Time Frame
- 1870–1900s
- Statute
- CERCLA
- State
- New Mexico
- Substances
- sulfuric acid and metals/metalloids, including arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, zinc
- Injury
- Birds, Groundwater, Other Wildlife, Sediment, Soil, Surface Water
Consent Decrees:
2012.02.21
- Federal Trustees:
- Department of the Interior (DOI)
- State Trustees:
- New Mexico
- Potentially Responsible Parties:
- Freeport-McMoRan Corp., Free-Port McMoRan Chino Mines Co., Freeport-McMoRan Tyrone Inc., Freeport-McMoRan Tyrone Mining, and Freeport-McMoRan Cobre Mining