Phelps Dodge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Company Phelps Dodge Corporation Type Public Traded as NYSE : PD Industry Mining Founded 1834 Defunct 2007 Fate Friendly takeover Successor Freeport-McMoRan Headquarters Phoenix, Arizona , United States Key people J. Steven Whisler, Chairman & CEO Products Copper Number of employees 15,000 (2006) Phelps Dodge Tower in downtown Phoenix . Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James . The latter two ran Phelps, James & Co., the part of the organization based in Liverpool , England . The import-export firm at first exported United States cotton from the Deep South to England, and imported various metals to the US needed for industrialization. With the expansion of the western f...
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