Its resources are reported to be about 380,000 tons of copper, 10 million ounces of silver and 142,000 ounces of gold.<\/p>\n
In a neighboring project, Faraday Copper<\/a> is exploring reopening the original San Manuel mine in conjunction with the Copper Creek Project<\/a> in the Galiuro Mountains<\/a>, about 15 miles away.<\/p>\n Nittetsu is the second large Japanese company to invest in Arizona mines.<\/p>\n Last year, Mitsubishi Corp. pledged $600 million toward the construction of six open-pit mines at the Copper World<\/a> mining project in the Santa Rita Mountains.<\/p>\n Another new Arizona mine, South 32 Hermosa<\/a> in the Patagonia Mountains, will extract zinc, manganese, lead, silver and copper, deemed critical minerals by the U.S.<\/p>\n Arizona is experiencing a revival of interest in mining this year, driven by high prices for precious metals, specifically copper and lithium for electric vehicles, green energy and materials in AI data centers.<\/p>\n The mining industry in Arizona provides a $21.1 billion impact in the state, as the supplier of about 70 percent of the nation\u2019s copper and significant amounts of gold, silver, lead, zinc, lithium, potash and gypsum, according to the Arizona Mining Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tucson is a major player in mining resurgence with several companies opening offices locally, along with suppliers to the industry and the University of Arizona’s\u00a0mining and engineering<\/a>, geoscience and Tech Park<\/a>, creating a pipeline of graduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its resources are reported to be about 380,000 tons of copper, 10 million ounces of silver and 142,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3554,18748,18749,1085,8,17,1860,1956,14755,11920,17140,17135,18750,1086],"class_list":["post-23615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-copper","tag-copper-mining-in-the-united-states","tag-crystals","tag-gold","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-materials","tag-minerals","tag-mining","tag-natural-materials","tag-natural-resources","tag-primary-sector-of-the-economy","tag-resource-extraction","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}