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Salero is Spanish for "salt cellar" [2] and was the name of the mine that the town grew up around. According to local tradition, the original Salero Mine was first worked by Spanish Jesuits in the 18th century, sometime after their arrival in what is now southern Arizona in the 1690s.
Uranium mining started in 1918 in the Carrizo Mountains as a byproduct of vanadium mining. The district is in Apache County, in the northeast corner of Arizona.The uranium and vanadium occur as carnotite in sandstone of the Salt Wash member of the Morrison Formation ().
The longest of the Salt River's many tributaries is the 195-mile (314 km) Verde River. The Salt's headwaters tributaries, the Black River and East Fork, increase the river's total length to about 300 miles (480 km). The name Salt River comes from the river's course over large salt deposits shortly after the merging of the White and Black Rivers.
The Magma copper mine became one of the most productive copper mines in Arizona, and through 1964, produced more than 25 million troy ounces (780 metric tons) of silver as a byproduct of copper mining. [4] Miners exhausted the best silver ores in the area by the mid-1880s, most of the mines closed, and most of the towns were deserted.
Pinto Valley Mine, Carlota Mine Pinto Creek is a tributary of the Salt River in Gila County , Arizona, within the Tonto National Forest . The creek winds for 28 miles (45 km) northward from the Pinal Mountains , through the Sonoran Desert , before emptying into the tail of Theodore Roosevelt Lake . [ 1 ]
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The Kayenta mine has 430 employees, and pays about $47 million per year in total wages. Coal royalties are paid at 12.5% of gross proceeds, as on federal BLM lands. [73] The royalties and other mine payments amount to about $50 million per year, $37 million paid to the Navajo Nation and $13 million to the Hopi tribe. [39]: p.V, 95
However, the centerpiece is the salt mine of Duzdag, or “Salt Mountain,” which functions as the largest medical tourism facility in the region. Hidden 360 feet (110 meters) below ground, this ...