Freeport-McMoRan is a producer of copper and gold founded in 1834 by William E. Dodge, Anson Green Phelps and Daniel James.
Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) is a leading international mining company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. The company was incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware on November 10, 1987. It operates large, long-lived geographically diverse assets with significant proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum. Its portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, one of the world’s largest copper and gold deposits; and significant mining operations in the Americas, including the large-scale Morenci minerals district in North America and the Cerro Verde operation in South America.