Silica Pit Metal/Non-Metal
Phelps Dodge Corp
· Surface
Controlled by
Freeport-McMoRan Inc
Greenlee County,
AZ
·
Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 0201320
MSHA record for Silica Pit (mine ID 0201320). Fatalities, non-fatal incidents grouped by year, current operator and controller, and mine context.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 0
- Years on record
- —
- Latest incident
- —
Ownership history
- Phelps Dodge Corp 1950 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Silica Pit sits in Greenlee County, Arizona, where the Census mining category is 36.0% of county employment.
Local economic context
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Greenlee County, Arizona · Population 9,452
36.0%
Mining share of county employment
$75,239
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
No reportable incidents on file.
MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.