This is a list of copper mines and lists operating, closed and planned mines that have substantial copper output.

Africa/Middle East

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Eritrea

* Misha mines

Iran

Sarcheshmeh Sarcheshmeh (سرچشمه) or Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex ( fa, كارخانجات مجتمع مس سرچشمه – ''Kārkhāneh-ye Mojtame‘-e Mes-e Sar Cheshmeh'') is a large open cast copper mine in the Kerman Province of Iran, conside ...

Saudi Arabia

* Jabal Sayid mine

South Africa

* Palabora mine * jaydeep

Zambia

* Sentinel mine * Kansanshi Mine * Lubambe mine * Luanshya mine * Chibuluma Mine * Chambishi Mines * Lumwana mine * Mufulira Mine * Nkana Mine *

Nchanga Mines The Nchanga mines are a group of copper mining operations near the municipal town of Chingola in Zambia. Nchanga Open Pit Mine The Open Pits at Nchanga Mine are situated in a crescent shaped structure 11 km long around the municipal town ...

* Rokana * Konkola

Mauritania

* Guelb Moghreine

Asia/Pacific Rim

Afghanistan

Mes Aynak Mes Aynak (Pashto/Persian: , meaning "little source of copper"), also called Mis Ainak or Mis-e-Ainak, was a major Buddhist settlement southeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, located in a barren region of Logar Province. The site is also the location ...

* Shaida Copper Mine

Australia

Mount Isa Mines Mount Isa Mines Limited ("MIM") operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia as part of the Glencore group of companies. For a brief period in 1980, MIM was Australia's largest company. It has ...

Northparkes Northparkes is a copper and gold mine in central New South Wales, Australia, approximately 27 kilometres north-northwest of the town of Parkes. The mine was originally started in 1994 using open pit mining, with underground mining using th ...

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Olympic Dam mine The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, NNW of Adelaide. It is the fourth largest copper deposit and the largest known single deposit of uranium in the world. Copper is the largest contributor ...

Bougainville Island

Bougainville Copper Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) is a mining company of Papua New Guinea (PNG) that is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). BCL operated the copper, gold and silver mine at the Panguna mine on Bougainville Island in PNG from 1971 t ...

(abandoned)

Indonesia

Batu Hijau mine The Batu Hijau mine is an open-pit mining, open pit copper-gold mining, mine operated by PT. Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (previously known as PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara). The mine is the second largest copper-gold mine in Indonesia behind the Grasber ...

Grasberg mine The Grasberg mine has one of the largest reserves of gold and copper in the world. It is located in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia near Puncak Jaya. It is operated by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI, ''see below''), a joint venture be ...

Mongolia

Erdenet Mining Corporation Erdenet Mining Corporation ( mn, Эрдэнэт үйлдвэр English: Precious factory) is a mining corporation in Erdenet, Mongolia. The city was built in 1974 to exploit Asia's largest deposit of copper ore and is the fourth largest copper m ...

Oyu Tolgoi mine The Oyu Tolgoi mine, also ( mn, Оюутолгой, ; "Turquoise Hill"), is a combined open pit and underground mining project in Khanbogd sum within the south Gobi Desert, approximately east of the Ömnögovi Province capital Dalanzadgad. ...

Myanmar/Burma

* Myanmar Wanbao Copper Mining Limited * Myanmar Yang Tse Copper Limited

Europe

Cyprus

* Skouriotissa (the oldest operating mine in the world) * Tamassos * Kambia * Kalavassos * Limni

Finland

* Kevitsa mine

Poland

* OZG Rudna * Zakłady Górnicze Lubin * OZG Polkowice-Sieroszowice

Romania

Roșia Poieni copper mine The Roșia Poieni copper mine is a large open pit copper mine in the centre of Romania, 90 km northwest of Alba Iulia and 484 km north of the capital, Bucharest. Geographically the mine is located in the Apuseni Mountains, south of the ...

Serbia

RTB Bor Serbia Zijin Bor Copper, formerly known as RTB Bor, is a copper mining and smelting complex located in Bor, Serbia. History Formation and expansion The first geological explorations of copper ore in Bor area were conducted in 1897 and cove ...

Sweden

* Aitik *

Garpenberg Garpenberg is a locality situated in Hedemora Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 518 inhabitants in 2010. ''Hedemora and Garpenberg Court District'', or ''Hedemora och Garpenbergs tingslag'', was a district of Dalarna in Sweden. The court ...

* Bolidenområdet

United Kingdom

Alderley Edge Mines The Alderley Edge Mines are located on the escarpment in Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Archaeological evidence indicates that copper mining took place here during Roman times and the Bronze Age, and written records show that mining continued here fro ...

North America

Canada

Coleman Mine The Coleman Mine is an underground nickel and copper mine operated by Vale northwest of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. It is the flagship mine of Vale's Sudbury operation. The mine recently implemented the use of electric haul vehicles and install ...

* Copper Mountain mine * Duck Pond mine * Galore Creek mine *

Gibraltar Mine The Gibraltar Mine is a Canadian copper mine operated by Taseko Mines near McLeese Lake in British Columbia, Canada. It is the second largest Open-pit mining, open-pit mine in Canada and the fourth largest in North America. The mine is the large ...

Highland Valley Copper The Highland Valley Copper mine is the largest open-pit copper mine in Canada, located near Logan Lake, British Columbia. It is an amalgamation of three historic mining operations: Bethlehem (later Valley Copper), Lornex and Highmont. History E ...

mine * Huckleberry mine *

Kidd Creek Kidd Mine or Kidd Creek Mine is an underground base metal mine north of Timmins, Ontario, Canada. It is owned and operated by Swiss multinational Glencore Inc. The mine was discovered in 1963 by Texas Gulf Sulfur Company. In 1981 it was sold to ...

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Mount Polley mine The Mount Polley mine is a Canadian List of gold mines in Canada, gold and List of copper mines in Canada, copper mine located in British Columbia near the towns of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Williams Lake, and Likely, British Columbia, Like ...

New Afton mine The New Afton mine is a Canadian gold and copper mine located west of the city of Kamloops in British Columbia. The mine is underground and is owned and operated by New Gold Inc. In 2019, the mine produced an output of of copper, and 69,000 oun ...

* Red Chris Mine * Schaft Creek

United States

* Adventure mine *

Bagdad mine The Bagdad Mine is a large copper mine located in Arizona, in the southwestern part of the United States. Bagdad represents one of the largest copper reserves in the United States and in the world, having estimated reserves of 873.6 million tonnes ...

Bingham Canyon Mine The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest ...

Cliff mine The Cliff mine was the first successful copper mine in the Copper Country of the state of Michigan in the United States. The mine is at the now-abandoned town of Clifton in Keweenaw County. Mining began in 1845, and the Cliff was the most pr ...

El Chino Mine The Chino Mine ("Chino" is Spanish for the "Chinese"), also known as the Santa Rita mine, also known as Santa Rita del Cobre, is an open-pit porphyry copper mine located in the town of Santa Rita, New Mexico east of Silver City. The mine was s ...

* Kennecott * Morenci Mine * Mohawk Mine *

Pebble Mine Pebble Mine is the common name of a proposed copper-gold- molybdenum mining project in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska, near Lake Iliamna and Lake Clark. As of November 2020 the mine developer, Northern Dynasty Minerals, was seeking ...

Quincy Mine The Quincy Mine is an extensive set of copper mines located near Hancock, Michigan. The mine was owned by the Quincy Mining Company and operated between 1846 and 1945, although some activities continued through the 1970s. The Quincy Mine was know ...

* Rosemont Ranch mine * Safford Mine * Tyrone mine

Mexico

* Buenavista mine * El Arco mine * El Pilar mine *

La Caridad Mine La Caridad Mine is a large open-pit copper mine in Nacozari, Sonora, Mexico. It is operated by Mexicana de Cobre, S.A., which is a part of Grupo Mexico, the largest copper producer in Mexico. The mine lies approximately east of Nacozari de ...

South America

Argentina

* Alumbrera mine

Brazil

* Serrote mine * Sossego mine

Chile

* Candelaria mine * Carmen de Andacollo mine * Collahuasi mine * El Abra mine *

El Teniente El Teniente ("The Lieutenant") is an underground copper mine located in the Chilean Andes, above mean sea level. It is in the commune of Machalí in Cachapoal Province, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, near the company town of ...

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Escondida Escondida is a copper mine at elevation in the Atacama Desert in Antofagasta Region, Chile. Geology The Escondida deposit is one of a cluster of porphyry coppers in an elongated area about 18 km north–south and 3 km east–west a ...

mine * Quebrada Blanca mine * Tres Valles mine * Zaldivar * Chuquicamata * Los Pelambres * Los Bronces * Esperanza *

Sierra Gorda Copper Mine Project Sierra Gorda Mine in Chile is a copper and molybdenum open pit mine which started production on October 1, 2014. Sierra Gorda SCM is the project company operating the mine. KGHM International Ltd (55%) and South32 (45%) are the owners of Sierra ...

Peru

Antamina mine The Antamina mine in the Andes Mountains of Peru is one of the largest copper/zinc mines in the world. It is an open pit mine owned by Teck Resources which had an estimated life of mine at 15 years. It also produced molybdenum. It produced 390,800 ...

* Austria Duvaz Morococha copper mine * Cobriza mine * Cerro Corona mine * Constancia mine * Cerro Verde Copper-Molybdenum Mine * La Granja mine *

Las Bambas copper mine Las Bambas copper mine is an open-pit copper mine in the Cotabambas province of Peru. With over a billion tons of copper ore, the deposit is one of the largest in the world and produces 2% of global copper. Las Bambas also produces molybdenum concen ...

* Quellaveco mine *

Toquepala mine The Toquepala mine is a large porphyry copper mine in the Tacna Province, Tacna Department, Peru. The mine is an open-pit mine producing copper, molybdenum, rhenium and silver with minor gold and zinc. The Toquepala mine and the Ilo smelter we ...

Toromocho mine The Toromocho mine is a large mining, copper mine in the center of Peru, in Junín Region. Toromocho represents one of the largest copper reserves in Peru and in the world, having estimated reserves of 1.52 billion tonnes of ore grading 0.48% coppe ...

* Tintaya mine *

Tia Maria mine The Tia Maria mine is a large copper deposit located in the south of Peru in the province of Islay, Arequipa Region. The deposit contains an estimated total reserves 711 million tonnes of ore graded at 0.36% copper. The project is operated by Sou ...

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