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The northwest section contains a steep escarpment on the northeast with the Verde Valley, the escarpment being the location of the fault-block that created the historic mining district at Jerome. [1] The United Verde Mine was one of the largest copper mines in the United States, producing large quantities of copper, gold, silver and zinc.
Gold mining is a major industry in the U.S. State of Nevada.In 2020 mining overall contributed $9.5 billion to the state's economy, $8.4 billion from gold and silver mining (all silver produced in Nevada is as a by-product from gold mining).
The town is in Arizona's Black Hills, which trend north–south. The town lies within the Prescott National Forest [ 6 ] at an elevation of more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m). [ 1 ] Woodchute Wilderness is about 3 miles (5 km) west of Jerome, [ 6 ] and Mingus Mountain , at 7,726 feet (2,355 m) above sea level, [ 7 ] is about 4 miles (6 km) south of ...
Clarkdale was founded in 1912 as a company smelter town by William A. Clark, for his copper mine in nearby Jerome.Clarkdale was one of the most modern mining towns in the world, including telephone, telegraph, electrical, sewer and spring water services, and was an early example of a planned community. [4]
The most productive mine in the area was the Phoenix Mine was located at what is today the entrance to the Spur Cross Conservancy area. Tailings from the mining operation are all that remain today. The mine was closed by 1905, and most other mining efforts in the area had stopped by 1910.
Mining operations at the mine site first began around 1918 with the establishment of the Peerless Mine. The Peerless Mine was an underground room and pillar operation that mined coal near the outcrop of the Wyodak seam. Though the operation went out of business in 1925, it left behind underground workings which were uncovered and mined through ...
The ten-stamp mill had become 200, and 500 employees worked in the mine, mills, offices and shops. Hearst owned the Boulder Ditch and water rights to Whitewood Creek, monopolizing the region. His railroad, Black Hills & Fort Pierre Railroad, gave him access to eastern Dakota Territory. [7] Homestake Mine in 1900
The Black Mountains are in four watersheds. The north and northeast contain the Lake Mead Watershed, and the north-flowing Detrital Wash Watershed. [3] The west along the Colorado River and southern-west contains the Havasu-Mohave Lakes Watershed where the Sacramento Wash Watershed [4] flows into the southern Topock Marsh, at the southern third of the Havasu-Mohave Lakes region.