The Bagdad mine is a porphyry copper deposit containing both sulfide and oxide mineralization. Chalcopyrite and molybdenite are the dominant primary sulfides and are the primary economic minerals in the mine. Chalcocite is the most common secondary copper sulfide mineral, and the predominant oxide copper minerals are chrysocolla, malachite and azurite.

Bagdad mine is an open-pit copper and molybdenum mining complex located in Yavapai County in west-central Arizona.

Copper ore bearing rock is drilled, blasted in the open pit, and then transported by haul trucks to heap leach pads and overburden deposition areas.

The available mining fleet consists of thirty-two 235-metric-ton haul trucks loaded by eight electric shovels with bucket sizes ranging from 30 to 48 cubic meters, which are capable of moving an average of 236,000 metric tons of material per day.

The highest bench elevation is 1,200 meters above sea level and the ultimate pit bottom is expected to be 150 meters above sea level. The Bagdad operation encompasses approximately 51,200 acres, comprising 40,000 acres of fee lands and 11,200 acres of unpatented mining claims held on public mineral estate and numerous state or federal permits, easements and rights-of-ways.

The Bagdad operation consists of a concentrator with a milling design capacity of 77,100 metric tons of ore per day that produces copper and molybdenum concentrate, a SX/EW plant that can produce approximately 6 million pounds per year of copper cathode from solution generated by low-grade stockpile leaching, and a pressure-leach plant to process molybdenum concentrate.

Blasted ore from the open pit that is directed to the mill undergoes primary, secondary, and tertiary crushing to reduce the ore size, increasing the surface area to facilitate the release of minerals. The crushed ore is fed to the concentrator where it is mixed with water in mills to achieve further size reduction. Reagents are added to the resulting slurry, which is conveyed to flotation cells. Air is bubbled through the flotation cell where the reagents and air create a froth to which select minerals attach and float to the surface; the froth is skimmed from the surface and collected as a concentrate.