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Copper Chief Mine

Past Producer in Yavapai county in Arizona, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10137846
MRDS ID M800331
MAS/MILS ID 0040250558
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Chief Mine
Alternate or previous names Hayden Development Co
Related records 10048232

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -112.09264, 34.70064 (WGS84)
Elevation 1710
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Yavapai(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cottonwood(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Prescott(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Verde(hydrologic unit)

Verde(hydrologic accounting unit)

Salt(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Prescott National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona Yavapai

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 015 N 002+E 12 N2 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -112.09264, 34.70064
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1958

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLAIMS EXTEND INTO SWSESW OF SEC.1

  • Deposit

    USGS COTTONWOOD QUAD

  • Deposit

    ADMR INFORMATION

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON C A AND S C CREASY GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE

  • Deposit

    JEROME AREA USGS PP 308 1958 P 149

  • Deposit

    ADMR SHEA COPPER CO PROPERTY FILE

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN W ORE DEPOSITS OF THE JEROME AND BRADSHAW MTN QUADS

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 782 1926 P 91

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-NOV-83 ADMR U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Phelps Dodge Corp — acquired by Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Acquired by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold in 2007 in what was then the largest mining-industry deal ever (~US$26 B).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references

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Authoritative Arizona resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.