Where is copper mined in WA?

Answer 1

Copper-bearing rock (ore) is blasted underground, scooped up by front-end loaders, taken in large trucks to underground crushers, then hoisted to the surface in skips up one of the shafts. At the surface, the ore is crushed further, mixed with water and other special chemicals to remove the waste rock and float the copper ore so it can be skimmed off, then heated and treated in other ways to purify the copper and separate it from any other metals.

Most of America's copper mines are open pit mines, huge digs into the ground using massive trucks and cranes to move the covering dirt and haul the ore off to be processed.

Answer 2

Miners first had to sink a shaft beside a deposit of copper. From the shaft, men dug tunnels out at different levels. the the ore (copper and dirt) is loaded into a big tonka truck. the truck then takes the ore to a crusher (what it does is self explanatory) the crushed ore called sluge is take to the refinerary. where it is melted down and formed in to shapes.

Answer 3

The following countries are the world's major
producers of copper (amount produced is
1995 output, given in tons, from the 1995
Mineral Commodity Summary) Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,350,000 United States of America. . . . . . 1,890,000 Canada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740,000 Russia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .600,000 Indonesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .380,000 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420,000 Peru. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400,000 China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350,000 Zambia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350,000 Poland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .340,000 Kazakstan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .220,000 Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115,000 Zaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000 Other Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,600,000 WORLD TOTAL-----------------------> 9,800,000 from sam 3000 (:{])--I--< ^¬^ "J

Answer 4

copper is found throughtout the universe.

Answer 5

Copper is a mineral and like all ores it is found underground and is mined.

Answer 6

copper ore is found in minerals of rocks

Answer 7

copper is formed from volcanic areas. You can find copper almost anywhere in the world. Most of the copper is found in the Western side of the US.

Answer 8

i hate this place