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ASARCO LLC is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona that mines and processes primarily copper. The company, a subsidiary of Grupo México, is currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. ASARCO planned to emerge from bankruptcy in 2008, and opposes calls for it to totally liquidate its mining and industrial assets.[1]
Its three largest open pit mines are the Mission, Silver Bell and the Ray mines in Arizona. Its mines produce 350 to 400 million pounds of copper a year. ASARCO conducts solvent extraction/electrowinning at the Ray and Silver Bell mines in Pima County, Arizona and Pinal County, Arizona and a smelter in Hayden, Arizona. Before its smelting plant in El Paso, Texas was suspended in 1999 it was producing 1 billion pounds of anodes each year. Refining at the mines as well as at a copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas produce 375 million pounds of refined copper each year.
ASARCO's hourly workers are primarily represented by the United Steelworkers.
ASARCO has 20 superfund sites across the United States, and it is subject to considerable litigation over pollution.
As of September 2009, ASARCO was the focus of a bidding war begun in May 2008 between its own parent company Grupo México and India-based Sterlite Industries. On August 31, 2009, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Richard Schmidt recommended that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen accept Grupo México's $2.5 billion bid for ASARCO as it prepares to come out of bankruptcy. However, on September 11, Sterlite increased its bid from $2.14 billion to $2.57 billion and requested that the court evaluate its new offer before issuing a final decision.[2]
Asarco Technologies
Copper
Products
Grupo Mexico ranks among the most important companies in Mexico, Peru, and the US, and it is one of the mayor copper producers in the world. It additionally incorporates the largest multimodal rail service in México and a substantial Infrastructure Development Division with attractive growth prospects.
Copper
Rod
Cake
Cathode
Resources
Alloys & Minerals
Envirolloy™
Selenium
Tellurium
Precious Metal
Silver
Gold
Cake
Cathode
Rod
CONTINOUS-CAST ROD SPECIFICATIONS
ATR BRAND, ELECTROLYTIC TOUGH
PITCH (ETP) PICKLED AND COATED
Continuously cast copper rod produced at our Amarillo Copper Refinery is shipped to wire manufacturers all over North America.
Dimensions
Rod Diameter (± 0.015 in): 0.3125 in
(± 0.38 mm): 7.9 mm
Coil Innner Diameter: 30 in; 762 mm
Coil Outer Diameter: 54 in; 1.372 mm
Coil Height by Weight
Coil Weight (± 5%) Coil Height (± 0.25 in; 6.3 min)
lb/in kg/mm in mm
5,000 2,268 24 610
7,500 3,402 37 907
Cake
Cathode
Cake
SEMICONTINUOUS-CAST CAKE SPECIFICATIONS
ATR BRAND, ELECTROLYTIC TOUGH
PITCH (ETP)
Copper cakes are fabricated by Asarco’s customers into plates, sheets, strips and bars.
Dimensions
Width (± 3%) Height (± 0.25 in; 6.3 min) Weight (± 5%)
in mm in mm lb/in kg/mm
25 635 5 127 40 0.71
27 686 6 152 52 0.93
37 ½ 953 6 ¾ 127 80 1.07
40 1,016 5 ½ 140 72 1.29
27 686 8 ¾ 222 75 1.34
29 ¾ 755 8 ¾ 222 93 1.45
Lenth (± 3%)
Cut to any lenth required from 12 to 456 inches; 305 to 11,582 mm
Cake
Cathode
Cathode
CATHODE SPECIFICATIONS
ATR BRAND, ELECTROLYTIC TOUGH
PITCH (ETP), RAY BRAND,
ELECTROWON (E-1)
Copper cathodes are purchased by customers to manufacture a variety of copper products.
Dimensions
Lenth Width Thickness Weight
ATR Brand in mm in mm in mm lb kg
Full plate with Loop 40 ½ 1,029 38 965 ⅝ 13 320 145
RAY Brand in mm in mm in mm lb kg
Full plate with Loop 41 1,041 36 914 ½ 13 240 109
NOTE: aLL Dimensions and weights for cathodes are approximate
Its three largest open pit mines are the Mission, Silver Bell and the Ray mines in Arizona. Its mines produce 350 to 400 million pounds of copper a year. ASARCO conducts solvent extraction/electrowinning at the Ray and Silver Bell mines in Pima County, Arizona and Pinal County, Arizona and a smelter in Hayden, Arizona. Before its smelting plant in El Paso, Texas was suspended in 1999 it was producing 1 billion pounds of anodes each year. Refining at the mines as well as at a copper refinery in Amarillo, Texas produce 375 million pounds of refined copper each year.
ASARCO's hourly workers are primarily represented by the United Steelworkers.
ASARCO has 20 superfund sites across the United States, and it is subject to considerable litigation over pollution.
As of September 2009, ASARCO was the focus of a bidding war begun in May 2008 between its own parent company Grupo México and India-based Sterlite Industries. On August 31, 2009, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Richard Schmidt recommended that U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen accept Grupo México's $2.5 billion bid for ASARCO as it prepares to come out of bankruptcy. However, on September 11, Sterlite increased its bid from $2.14 billion to $2.57 billion and requested that the court evaluate its new offer before issuing a final decision.[2]
Asarco Technologies
Copper
Products
Grupo Mexico ranks among the most important companies in Mexico, Peru, and the US, and it is one of the mayor copper producers in the world. It additionally incorporates the largest multimodal rail service in México and a substantial Infrastructure Development Division with attractive growth prospects.
Copper
Rod
Cake
Cathode
Resources
Alloys & Minerals
Envirolloy™
Selenium
Tellurium
Precious Metal
Silver
Gold
Cake
Cathode
Rod
CONTINOUS-CAST ROD SPECIFICATIONS
ATR BRAND, ELECTROLYTIC TOUGH
PITCH (ETP) PICKLED AND COATED
Continuously cast copper rod produced at our Amarillo Copper Refinery is shipped to wire manufacturers all over North America.
Dimensions
Rod Diameter (± 0.015 in): 0.3125 in
(± 0.38 mm): 7.9 mm
Coil Innner Diameter: 30 in; 762 mm
Coil Outer Diameter: 54 in; 1.372 mm
Coil Height by Weight
Coil Weight (± 5%) Coil Height (± 0.25 in; 6.3 min)
lb/in kg/mm in mm
5,000 2,268 24 610
7,500 3,402 37 907
Cake
Cathode
Cake
SEMICONTINUOUS-CAST CAKE SPECIFICATIONS
ATR BRAND, ELECTROLYTIC TOUGH
PITCH (ETP)
Copper cakes are fabricated by Asarco’s customers into plates, sheets, strips and bars.
Dimensions
Width (± 3%) Height (± 0.25 in; 6.3 min) Weight (± 5%)
in mm in mm lb/in kg/mm
25 635 5 127 40 0.71
27 686 6 152 52 0.93
37 ½ 953 6 ¾ 127 80 1.07
40 1,016 5 ½ 140 72 1.29
27 686 8 ¾ 222 75 1.34
29 ¾ 755 8 ¾ 222 93 1.45
Lenth (± 3%)
Cut to any lenth required from 12 to 456 inches; 305 to 11,582 mm
Cake
Cathode
Cathode
CATHODE SPECIFICATIONS
ATR BRAND, ELECTROLYTIC TOUGH
PITCH (ETP), RAY BRAND,
ELECTROWON (E-1)
Copper cathodes are purchased by customers to manufacture a variety of copper products.
Dimensions
Lenth Width Thickness Weight
ATR Brand in mm in mm in mm lb kg
Full plate with Loop 40 ½ 1,029 38 965 ⅝ 13 320 145
RAY Brand in mm in mm in mm lb kg
Full plate with Loop 41 1,041 36 914 ½ 13 240 109
NOTE: aLL Dimensions and weights for cathodes are approximate