Carlota Project
Operation Overview
| Location: | Globe Miami, Arizona, USA |
| Ownership: | 100% |
| Type of Mine: | Open Pit |
| Type of Ore body: | Copper oxide, supergene, exotic |
| Primary Metal: | Copper |
| Processing | Run of Mine Heap Leach with SX/EW |
| End Product | Cathode Copper |
| Expected mine life | 11 years from early 2009 |
| Reserves | 77 million tonnes at 0.45% copper |
| Employees (e) | 220 |
The Carlota Mine is a heap leach -- SX-EW operation in the west end of the Miami-Globe mining district of east-central Arizona. Production of copper cathode at the Carlota Mine commenced in December 2008.