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Phelps Dodge Hidalgo Smelter

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This 850-pound copper anode was one of the last anodes produced at the Phelps Dodge Hidalgo Smelter in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, from copper concentrate produced at the Morenci Mine in Arizona. The Hidalgo Smelter operated from 1976 to 1999, and the anode was donated to the Greenlee County Historical Society Museum in 2006.
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