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The Jerome Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining community of Jerome, Arizona.The town was founded as a mining camp associated with copper deposits that were mined from the late 19th century until 1953.
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona. Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley, Jerome is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott.
The town of Jerome was incorporated on March 8, 1898. In 1914, a separate company, the United Verde Extension Mining Company (UVX) led by James S. Douglas, Jr. discovered a second ore body near Jerome that produced a bonanza. [14] The UVX Mine, also known as the Little Daisy Mine, [15] became profitable. [16
The United Verde mine was one of the largest copper mines in the United States. [1] The mine was located in the town of Jerome in central Arizona, in the southwestern United States. [1] The mine produced over 2 billion pounds of copper, silver, gold and manganese. [citation needed]
Resolution Copper Mining, a joint subsidiary of U.K. and Australian mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP, hopes to build one of the world’s largest underground copper mines at the site outside ...
Jerome State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona, US, featuring the Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 by a family of influential mining entrepreneurs in Jerome, Arizona, a mining region in the northeast of the Black Hills, east Yavapai County. A museum is located in the old Douglas Mansion.
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Mining leader BHP (NYSE:BHP) has partnered with Ivanhoe Electric (NYSE:IE, )) to explore copper and other critical minerals in the United States. The collaboration aims to find new sources of ...