/ I / Arizona Mineral Resource No. 49 September, 2008 . , j ~ , \ Mining llall of Fame 'A wards '. STAF,F BOARD OF , " The 26th annual Ame{.icauMining,Hall of '. GOVERNORS Dr. Madan M. Singh - Fame..Awafcts Banquet andflmdtais~r~liop'~ < ' , Director J. sored by the~iningtFound~tlon oftht)}'O~th:- f Nyal Nierputh - Chief Mineral Resource west wilL~~ held at tb"e MarriottiU'niversiiY:;;; Mr. P.i<.. 'Rana' Medhi Mining Engineer \ • ... ( '\ . ..,>t" , Park Hotel ill Tucson ofDecemberi 6, 2008: Chainnan Frank Kimbler - Casa Grande Mining Engineer Status of Mining in Arizona underesti!?atea. In fiscal ye-ar (FY) 2008 which ended on Th~s year' s ipductee,gu~st~f honor, :afto I Diane Bain -Ipublic by Dr. Madan M . Singh, Director June 30, 2P08, the mining industry contributed $43.7 mil­ featured sp~aker, at the banquet will be{"PimoL " Dr. Patrick F. O tHara Infonnation Officer Need for Mining lion in severance taxes'and $6.8 million in Transaction thy Snider, who as President andCliiefOpeiit"." Vice Chamnan Jacqueline Hall - There is a perception among a ~ociferous minority in Privilege,., Taxes (TPT) to the state, giving a ,total of $50.5 irig, Officer o(PheIps Dodge Corpora~op.;led . " . Prescott Administrative Assistant Arizona that mining merely mars the landscape and causes million. In FY 2007 the total was $51 .5 million; but since the pperatioriaLand technical ,integration of; en'vironmental damage. These people have li!!le compre­ construction has been affected by the·mortgage crisis in Dr. Mary M. Poulton Sandra Regalado -, ( '-':Phdp~ n~dge's "Cyprus-AMAXacquisitlori"'), Secretary hension of the fact that our standard of living depends on FY 2008 the ~ggregate (including sand and gravel) mining • . / • "c.,:. ;_;; . • ~ 0 ' • •,_: •. ": ,c' 'C'_;::", :' ", _:.: ._ .'." Secretary ' . ""- was down by 15 percent even though the severarrce taxes < m;d.belpe~~2 : ~st~bli.~h ,. P~1'e]PS:..;rz9~~e ,~s 'f.Re ,>?f t, Dr. Jan Rasmussen-, mined materials. Everything around us is made of miner­ Tucson were 0.5 percent higher. The total sales from metal mines -the mdustiy l~aQ~rs, In technologydevclopmenc Curator ..... als that are obtained'froni the earth. There is an old axiom in Arizona were $1.75 billion and from non-metal mines ,at,d' op()raiionalexcellence ' .• ,) ·2:;\~s>:;.:;.<).· "; Mr. Robert L. 'Bob' TOU~GUlDES that states "ifit can't be grown, it has to be mined." Actu­ t (including oil and gas) :.vere $217' million. , As representatives' of mining heritage:,.the Holmes Liz Anderson ally even crops ard trees rreed minerals for fertilizers (for In addition the companies paid corporate income Hall of Fame will induct R.A.F. Penrose\;ano' Member Ann Baker example potash, phosphates, and nitrates) which are Phoenix Shirley Cote mined, taxes, property taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, rents and Samuel Heintzelman into the'Ameri<;an 'N:ining"" l Doug Duffy Every person in the United States uses 3.6 million royalties for use of the State lands, and a host of other Dr. Raymond W. Grant Hall of Fame. Medals of Merit will be awarded Joanne Hesterman pounds of minerals in their lifetime - including over 1,6 taxes ~d fees, The operating companies also make pay­ Member '. \ to P~EI Hodg~s and Barba;a Fila~. The Indus- Laurette Kennnedy million pounds of stone, sand and gravel. 82,000 gallons ments to counties, local municipalities, school districts, Queen Creek try Partnership Award will be presented to At- Sandra McDonald of petroleum, 5,7 million cubic feet of natural gas, 65, 000 and other local organizations, 4 las C~pco. \ / \' I Kim Rottas pounds of cement, nearly 20,000 pounds of phosphate, The Arizona Mining Association (AMA) publishes an ;/ (/ Janice Snell more than 587,000 pounds of coal, almost 30,000 pounds annual report on "The Economic Impact of the Arizona \ of iron ore, over 28,000 pounds of salt, more than 19,000 Copper Industry." This is based on data from three n1'ajor pounds of clays, in excess of 1,300 pounds of copper, mining companies. Estimates are included for the copper I S ,600 poundS' of bauxite, and the list goes on. Automo­ being produced in Mineral Park and in the future also for biles, appliances, televisions, telephones, houses, roads, Carlota and Johnson Camp. The dir~ct impact of copper and bridges, play an essential role in modem society. mining in calendar year (CY) 2007 was $3.3 billion and Where do the raw materials for these come from? With­ the total impact, direct and indirect, was $6.8 billion. No out these and other amenities life would become primi­ other metal or non-metal industries are included. Also the Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources tive! contributidns of the considerable exploration and develop­ 1502 W~st ~ashington Street The first steps towards civilization were_when man ment work being done by various companies are noj taken Phoenix, AZ 85007 . fashioned c;rude tools and weapons from rocks and used into account. In the recent past there has been significant I \ flint to start fires, The metallurgy of copper led to the drilling in the Arizona Strip and other areas for uranium. civilization along the Ni'le ~nd the Tig;is-Euphrates area. S0m~ companies have b~en '~xploring for gold, both plac­ Address Correction Requested ers and\lod.e. There are economic benefits to the state r The discov.ery of1he effects of adding tin to, the copper led to the Br0nz,\ Age. When iron was found, the Iron Age fi-om the , deve l~pment work that companies perforrn to began. These metals resulted in'trade between countries. open llP the mines, which is regarded a;; construction, but / \ After Columbus stumbled on America, the Spanish came should correctly be attributed to mining. Even the recent looking for gold and other riches. housing construction in communities such as Globe.. f The Spanish expeditions into lands that later became Miami-Superior and Safford would'not have occurred if it the State of Arizona in the mid-sixteenth century were in were not fQr the new mines being developed. During ex­ search of precious inetals. After the Gadsden Purchase in ploratiotJ the expenditures for motel rooms and subsis­ tence for drilling crews and geologists are routinely cred- / 1853 man.y companies were fonned to explore for miner­ als in the region, The census after the creation of the Ari­ . ited t6 tourism, not mining. ( . " zona Territory in 1863 showed that nearly one quarter of Tfie"'Gem and Mineral Show in Tucson is the second the population dec!ftrep their occupation as miner or pros- large~ t in the world. Its contribution to the econo'my of pector. Twelve members (44 %) of the first Territorial \ Pima County i ~ over $80 million, and attracts visitors and Legislature were miners; there were two farmers and two vendors from countries all across the planet. This is the rancher~. This is an excellent indication of the role of result of the innate mining industry in Arizona. There are / mining in the fonnation odhe State. similar exhibits in Bisbee, Cottonwood, Globe, Green Economic Contributions Valley, Kingman, Lake Havasu City, Mesa, Phoenix, /' r The mining industry is not as dominant as it was ear­ ~ Prescott, Qllartzite, Sedona, Sierra Vista, Tombstone, and lier. However:: its contributions to the state' s economy are Wickenburg, albeit on a smaller scale. All attract .visitors "'> \ • I) ./ /-,' " _ .1. Arizon;; Department ofMin~s and Mineral Resources, 1502 W WasMngton, Pbo~n ix, AZ 85007 / i 602-771 -1600 Tol/free in Arizona 1-800-446-1259 www.mines.az.gov .. ' I· '> ") ,/ Arizona Mineral Resource No. 49 September, 2008 No. 49 September, 2008 Arizona Mineral Resource from far and wide. The economic benefits are ascribed to also Copper is the most recycled metal, and nearly half the The Defiance mine, also in the Turquoise district, Gold-Base Metal Mining Districts of mid-Tertiary tourism, but should be attributed to the mining industry. metal in use is obtained from scrap; this reflects positively contains large amounts of magnificent wulfenite speci­ Age (-25-15 Million Years Ago) Ifwe take Tucson as an example of the economic on the current focus on "green." In CY 2007 the copper mens lining solution cavities and in oxidized lead, manga­ Some of the most sought after wulfenite are the speci­ impact of mining, one out of five workers in the Arizona industry contributed more than $53.5 million directly to copper industry lives in that metropolitan area. Mining various school districts in the state. nese, and iron deposits. The wulfenite is associated with mens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine near the Ti­ provides $117 million in personal income, whereas tour­ Uranium may resume being mined in Arizona; the cerussite, anglesite, malachite, smithsonite, cerargyrite, ger town site on the property of BHP Billiton's now ism contributes $342 million. However, remember that state was the second largest producer of the mineral dur­ and pyrolusite. The lead-zinc-silver orebodies are in Penn­ closed San Manuel mine. The wulfenite occurs with va­ the latter figure includes significant income from the min­ ing World War II. It is anticipated that uraniwn produc­ sylvanian-Permian Naco Group limestones where frac­ nadinite, gold in quartz, galena, sphalerite, anglesite, ce­ eral shows, exploration, and visitors that come to conduct tion may start here, especially with the increasing demand business with mining related entities. Mining consultants for nuclear power throughout the world. Nuclear power is tures intersect or change dip or are parallel to bedding. russite, and many oxidized minerals. The ore occurs in that reside in Tucson but provide services outside Pima clean and does not introduce greenhouse gases into the They are associated with aplite dikes related to the Sugar­ west-northwest trending shear zones that are intruded by County are classified as "Exported Business Services," atmosphere.