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Bookmark or Share- Henderson Mine in Clear Creek County resuming operations, which could ...The sooner-than-expected closure of Henderson Mine forced Clear Creek County leaders to scramble last year as they fought to wean from a near 40-year reliance on mine-tax revenues and jobs.
- Henderson Molybdenum Mine - Colorado EncyclopediaLocated about nine miles west of Empire, the Henderson Molybdenum Mine was developed by American Metal Climax (AMAX) and opened in 1976 to work one of the world’s largest known molybdenum deposits.
- United States of America | Climax Molybdenum - A Freeport-McMoRan CompanyThe Henderson mine is a porphyry molybdenum deposit, with molybdenite as the primary sulfide mineral. The Henderson operation consists of a large block-cave underground mining complex feeding a concentrator with a current capacity of approximately 32,000 metric tons per day.
- Henderson Mine - Mining Life OnlineAs a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Henderson is the largest primary producer of molybdenum in the world. The Henderson Mine is located in Clear Creek County on the east side of the Continental Divide, in the beautiful Rocky Mountains fifty miles west of Denver, Colorado.
- Henderson Mine | The Center for Land Use Interpretation - clui.orgThe Henderson Mine is the largest molybdenum mine in the nation, which has produced more than a billion pounds of the material from this site since opening in 1976. At the mine, the rock-bearing ore is blasted out of the living rock, and is crushed down to soccer ball sized or smaller chunks, that dump onto a conveyor belt.
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