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Arizona is known as the Copper State because it produces two-thirds of US copper annually. Laramide copper porphyry deposits are common around Tucson and include the Twin Buttes, Sierrita-Esperanza, Rosemont, Silver Bell and Mission-Pima mines, as well as the historical Ajo mine to the west.
Bodies of water of Arizona (6 C) I. Water supply infrastructure in Arizona (1 C, 1 P) R. Reservoirs in Arizona (2 C, 76 P) T. Water transportation in Arizona (4 C) W.
Satellite image of Theodore Roosevelt Lake and surrounding geographic features Roosevelt Lake is the oldest of the six reservoirs constructed and operated by the Salt River Project. It also has the largest storage capacity of the SRP lakes with the ability to store 1,653,043 acre-feet (2.039 km 3 ) of water when the conservation limit of ...
The Arizona mountain lion can be found in habitats all across the state. The video shows a thirsty mountain lion getting a good long drink. It returns to the pool after dark, this time with a friend.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Arizona. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
List of rivers in Arizona , sorted by name. By drainage basin. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream ...
The Big Sandy River flows year-round (perennial flow) south of the Signal Ghost Town site and intermittently above this site. [5] [6] In the period of 2007–2016, the surface water flow of the Big Sandy at the USGS monitoring site at the Signal Ghost Town ranged from a minimum of 22 US gallons (83 L) per second to a maximum output of nearly 524,000 US gallons (1,980,000 L) per second during ...