{"id":11574,"date":"2020-04-13T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:30:48","slug":"freeport-mcmoran-closes-new-mexico-mine-as-coronavirus-cases-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/freeport-mcmoran-closes-new-mexico-mine-as-coronavirus-cases-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeport-McMoRan closes New Mexico mine as coronavirus cases spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Freeport-McMoRan Inc said on Sunday it has suspended operations at its Chino copper mine in New Mexico indefinitely because of the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the site\u2019s workers.<\/p>\n<p>The closure marks the latest blow for Freeport, the world\u2019s largest publicly traded copper producer, after Peru\u2019s government shuttered its mines last month because of the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed more than 110,000 lives across the globe and infected nearly 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Chino mine, in New Mexico\u2019s southwest corner, produced 175 million pounds of copper last year, making it the company\u2019s third-largest North American mine by production.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the mine\u2019s employees tested positive for the virus earlier this month. Freeport said on Sunday that more employees have now tested positive, adding the contagion is not \u201cwidespread,\u201d without providing specific numbers.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico state officials were first alerted to the additional cases on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have asked that Chino mines employees not report to work until further notice after learning about additional employees testing positive for COVID-19,\u201d Freeport spokeswoman Linda Hayes said in a statement to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix, Arizona-based company plans to work with local and state officials to determine when to reopen the mine. Employees will receive paid leave for any missed scheduled shifts while Freeport reviews Chino operations, Hayes said. (Reporting by Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Shri Navaratnam and Christian Schmollinger)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/pmn\/business-pmn\/freeport-mcmoran-closes-new-mexico-mine-as-coronavirus-cases-spread\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freeport-McMoRan Inc said on Sunday it has suspended operations at its Chino copper mine in New Mexico indefinitely because of the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, among the site\u2019s workers.The closure marks the latest blow for Freeport, the world\u2019s largest publicly traded copper producer, after Peru\u2019s government shuttered its&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[120,162,161,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16732,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions\/16732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}