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Twin Buttes Open pit Copper mine - Arizona

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

t-naarz-00008

Date

2018-09-04

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 june 27, 2017 from the International Space Station (ISS).