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United Verde 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10186256
MRDS ID M002664
MAS/MILS ID 0040251537
Record type Site
Current site name United Verde Mine
Alternate or previous names United Verde Mine,, Hull, Big Hole Property, Hopewell Tunnel, Patented Claims 3348, Patented Claim 3480, Patented Claims 2812
Related records 10109023

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -112.12384, 34.75194 (WGS84)
Elevation 1525
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

Clarkdale(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 016 N 002 E 22 C Arizona

Commodities

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

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Ankerite Unknown
Arsenopyrite Unknown
Bornite Unknown
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Chlorite Unknown
Cuprite Unknown
Dolomite Unknown
Galena Unknown
Gold Unknown
Jasper Unknown
Limonite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Pyrrhotite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Ripidolite Unknown
Sericite Unknown
Silver Unknown
Specularite Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown
Tennantite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -112.12384, 34.75194
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N20W
    Dip 65N
    Thickness 1372M
    Length 305M
    Width 244M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Shape of Orebody #1 PIPELIKE
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FOLDING
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 SERICITIC
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 SILICIFICATION
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #3 PYRITIZATION
    Strike And Dip N20W:65N
    Minimum Depth to Top 0
    Date of Last Modification 911007

Comments on the geologic information

  • HOST FORMATIONS ARE THE TUFFACEOUS SEDIMENTS OF THE GRAPEVINE GULCH AND AN UNNAMED QUARTZ PORPHYRY. BOTH ARE REPLACED BY SEDIMENTS. RHYOLITE IS FOUND NEAR THE ORE, AND GABBRO FORMS THE HANGING WALL. "BLACK SCHIST" (CHLORITE ROCK) REPLACED THE QTZ. PORPHYRY AND CONTAINS ORE. ANDESITE DIKES INTRUDED THE OTHER ROCK TYPES. ALTERATION ALSO INCLUDES CHLORITIZATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Year of first production 1883

Mining district

District name Verde

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phelps Dodge Corp
    Home office Arizona
    Year 1980
  • Type Operator
    Owner Big Hole Mining Co.
    Year 1969

Production statistics

  • Year 1940
    Period 1918-1940
    Description 1918-40, From Open Pit 9709000 St Ore. Grade In Comments
  • Year 1951
    Period 1908-1951
    Description 1908-51, From Underground 22520000 St Ore

Comments on the production information

  • GRADES OF ORE MINED BY OPEN PIT IN 1918-40: 3.47% CU, 2.07 TR OZ/ST AG, 0.071 TR OZ/ST AU.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • GRADES GIVEN IN REFERENCE ARE AS FOLLOWS: 12 LB/ST CU, 7% ZN, 4 LB/ST PB, 2 TR OZ/ST AG, AND 0.02 TR OZ/ST AU.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLAIMS EXTEND INTO NW,N2SW AND W2W2NE OF SEC.22, AND S2SW OF

  • Deposit

    SEC.15

  • Reserve-Resource

    INGALLS, W.R. WORLD SURVEY OF THE ZINC INDUSTRY. MIN. MET.

  • Reserve-Resource

    SOC. AMERICA, 1931, 128 PP.

  • Deposit

    USGS MUNDS DRAW QUAD

  • Deposit

    USGS CLARKDALE QUAD

  • Deposit

    BLM MINING DIST SHEETS 54,56

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN W ORE DEPOSITS OF THE JEROME AND BRADSHAW MTN QUADS

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 782 1926 P 61-78

  • Deposit

    HANSEN M G DIAMOND DRILLING AT THE U V MINE USRM IC 6708

  • Deposit

    ECONOMIC GEOLOGY VOL 67 NOV 1972 NO 7

  • Deposit

    ADMR UNITED VERDE FILE

  • Deposit

    ANDERSON C A USGS PP 308 1958 P 101-

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ALSO IN SECTIONS 14 AND 15, SAME TOWNSHIP AND RANGE. LAST PRODUCTION WAS SOMETIME AFTER 1969.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-OCT-1991 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.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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