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Twin Buttes Open pit Copper mine - Arizona

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

t-naarz-00004

Date

2017-10-23

The Twin Buttes Mine, a producer of copper and molybdenum, was closed in 1994 but was recently (2010) purchased by a new owner (Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) and may reopen. Astronaut photograph was acquired on January 14, 2010 from the International Space Station (ISS).