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Freeport-McMoRan
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., (FMCG) often called simply Freeport, is one of the world's largest producers of copper and gold. Its headquarters are located in the Freeport-McMoRan Center in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Freeport is the largest copper and molybdenum producer in the world. It mines and mills ores containing copper, gold, molybdenum, cobalt〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fcx.com/resources/index.htm )〕 and silver for the world market. The company also has oil and gas interests.〔 Richard Adkerson is President and Chief Executive Officer of Freeport and James R. Moffett is the company's Chairman.
The company was formerly based in New Orleans, Louisiana, before moving to Phoenix, Arizona, after acquiring copper producer Phelps Dodge in 2007. In addition to Phelps Dodge, its subsidiaries include PT Freeport Indonesia, PT Irja Eastern Minerals and Atlantic Copper, S.A.
== History ==
The company was founded as the Freeport Sulphur Company in 1912. The company was founded in Freeport, Texas, that same year, near its new sulphur mines, then the largest in the world.〔(Freeport article, Handbook of Texas )〕 Freeport pioneered mining sulphur at mines along the US Gulf Coast using the Frasch Process. Freeport Sulphur began to diversify in 1931, purchasing manganese deposits in Oriente Province, Cuba. The company produced nickel during World War II and potash in the 1950s.
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