Supporting America’s Infrastructure

From foundations to roofs, power plants to wind farms, roads and bridges to communications grids and data storage centers—America’s infrastructure projects begin with mining. Consider that nearly every industry including energy, construction, transportation, and equipment manufacturing requires steel—a material dependent on both metallurgical coal and iron ore for its production. And copper’s flexibility, conformity, thermal and electric conductivity, and resistance to corrosion make it an ideal industrial metal. These are just a few of the ways that mining is contributing to America’s infrastructure.

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Rio Tinto Kennecott: Innovative Copper Production for an Increasingly Wired World

While often overlooked, Copper is the workhorse metal of our electric world. Copper wiring keeps electricity flowing and that makes it essential to the technologies we rely upon and the infrastructure that keeps us connected. Our growing demand for copper is being met both from mines and from increased... Read More

August 20, 2018