Nord Resources Proceeds with Construction at Johnson Camp


Copper cathodes await shipment at Nord Resources’ Johnson Camp.
Nord Resources, which is reactivating copper mining at the Johnson Camp heap leach mine 65 miles east of Tucson, Arizona, has been issued the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality airquality permit required to proceed with construction at the mine. Contractors were mobilizing on site as of mid-August to begin installation of the new crushing and conveying system and other equipment. The company expects to reach full production from new ore in the Spring of 2009 at an estimated rate of 26 million lb/y. Nord has been producing copper cathodes from residual leaching of existing ore heaps at Johnson Camp since February 2008.

The Johnson Camp property consists of 64 patented lode mining claims (872 acres), 88 unpatented claims (1,340 acres), and fee simple lands (511 acres), totaling 2,723 acres. The on-site copper cathode production facility includes a 4,600-gpm solvent extraction plant and a 52,000-lb/d-capacity electrowinning plant with 74 cells, 8 million gallons of solution storage capacity and other related equipment. Current reserves are sufficient to support production of 25 million lb/y of cathodes for 16 years.

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