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The Mineral Park mine is a large open-pit copper mine located in the Cerbat Mountains, 14 mi (23 km) northwest of Kingman, Arizona (in the southwestern United States). A 2013 report said that Mineral Park has an estimated reserves of 389 million t (383 million long tons; 429 million short tons) of ore grading 0.14% copper and 31 million oz (1.9 ...
An Arizona state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Arizona preserved by the state for its natural, cultural, or recreational resources. The state park system in Arizona includes both state parks and state historic parks, as well as other designations such as natural areas and recreation areas.
Over a billion tons of copper were extracted from the mine, along with significant quantities gold, silver and lead. Also, as a by-product of the mining operations, high quality turquoise (locally known as Bisbee Blue) was also discovered. On the east central slope of the Mule Mountains can be found the Copper Queen Mine.
Vanadinite from the old Western Mine, in the southern Cerbat Mountains [1] The Cerbat Mountains (Walapai: Ha'emede) is a mountain range in Mohave County in northwest Arizona immediately north of Kingman. The Cerbat Mountains and the White Hills (Arizona) adjacent north, are the dividing ranges between the Detrital Valley west, and the Hualapai ...
Bisbee turquoise, also known as Bisbee Blue, is amongst the finest turquoise found anywhere in the world. [2] Mining operations in the pit ended in 1974. The undeveloped Cochise deposit, located immediately north of the Lavender pit, contains an estimated 190 million tons of rock containing 0.4% acid-soluble copper, [ 3 ] which may be mined in ...
Chloride is a onetime silver mining camp in Mohave County, Arizona, United States, and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in the state. [4] The town is a census-designated place (CDP), with a population at the 2020 census of 229. [3] Chloride has a ZIP Code of 86431.
Gleeson is a ghost town situated in southeastern Cochise County, Arizona, United States. [3] It has an estimated elevation of 4,924 feet (1,501 m) above sea level. [1] The town was first settled as Turquoise [4] in the 1870s in what was then the Arizona Territory, then later re-established as Gleeson in 1900.
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.