In recent months there's been almost frenzied mergers and acquisitions activity in the metals and mining sector thanks to surging base metal prices. In September Phelps Dodge itself lost out to ...

He was chairman of the Phelps Dodge board from 1989-2000, and at the time of his death served on the boards of Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Steel Corp., Marathon Oil Corp. and Heidrick & Struggles ...

The Papua mine is one of the world's largest precious metal mines. Phelps Dodge has operations throughout the world, and is working on an $850 million expansion of its Cerro Verde mine in Peru.

Phelps reorganized the business, began selling lumber, iron, steel, insurance. Next Phelps Dodge acquired a patch of ground in Bisbee, Ariz, and began to dig. In 1906 it announced in all New York ...

Having failed in its effort to acquire nickel miner Inco earlier this year, Phelps Dodge has turned from hunter ... 69 million pounds of molybdenum, a metal used for hardening steel.