Facility detail

CLIMAX MOLYBDENUM CO-HENDERSON MINE

9 MILES W OF EMPIRE, EMPIRE, CO, 80438

Parent company: FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC

PBT — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Manganese compounds Manganese And Manganese Compounds Zinc compounds Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) Lead compounds Total (lbs)
2024 — 2,203,150 240,260 33,000 — 2,476,440
2023 1,401,000 — 100,260 31,000 — 1,532,286
2022 981,000 — 66,260 20,000 — 1,067,284
2021 1,400,500 — 96,260 20,000 — 1,516,807
2020 — 1,200,505 67,260 28,000 — 1,295,796
2019 — 1,501,000 100,260 42,000 — 1,643,291
2018 1,201,000 — 67,260 5,350 — 1,273,635
2017 1,601,000 — 100,260 — 33 1,701,293
2016 1,601,550 — 110,260 — — 1,711,810
2015 1,901,250 — 130,260 24,000 49 2,055,559
2014 1,602,050 — 100,260 21,000 53 1,723,363
2013 1,201,350 — 40,260 23,250 45 1,264,905
2012 1,103,050 — 35,260 32,005 24 1,170,340
2011 2,004,850 — 140,760 94,800 33 2,240,693
2010 1,005,350 — 43,260 81,000 28 1,129,638
2009 915,250 — 46,260 24,000 521 986,031
2008 262,750 — 11,505 88,000 25 362,280
2007 501,883 — 23,099 56,007 55 581,044
2006 361,874 — 22,117 45,003 — 428,994
2005 121,221 — — 60,003 — 181,224
2004 130,970 — — 29,002 — 159,972
2003 472,320 — 20,131 41,227 — 533,678
2002 371,221 — — 16,015 — 387,236
2001 561,019 — 25,149 14,015 3 600,186
2000 450,674 — — 13,015 — 463,689
1999 1,260 — — 15,015 — 16,288
1998 925 — — — — 925

▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.