Verde Combination Copper Co. property (Verde Combination prospect/shaft; Verde Combination East area; Layman gp; April & May claims; Muscal Mine), Mescal Canyon area, Jerome, Verde District, Black Hills (Black Hill Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 34°44'10"N
Longitude: 112°6'3"W
‡Ref.: Arizona Mining Journal (1918) July, 1918: 27.
Arizona Mining Journal (1918) December, 1918: 23.
Weed, W.H. (1918) The Mines Handbook, Vol. XIII: 397, 418.
Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 94.
Anderson, C.A. & S.C. Creasey (1958), Geology and ore deposits of the Jerome area, Yavapai County, Arizona, USGS PP 308: 154.
USGS Cottonwood Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Verde Combination group file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources United Verde file.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management Arizona Mining Claims Lead File #50250.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10027266, MRDS ID #M002671; and, Dep. ID #10210853, MAS ID #0040251551; and, Dep. ID #10234382, MAS ID #0040251550.
A former surface Cu-Pb-Th mine with underground workings located on 33 claims South of Mescal Canyon and 1 mile SE of Jerome. Claims extended into sec. 35.
Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in the Deception Rhyolite and the Cleopatra Quartz Porphyry (greenstone) with 2 feet (0.6 meters) of 5% copper ore in a fissure vein. Ore control was stratigraphy and igneous activity. Ore concentration was oxidation at near surface. Alteration included chloritization and sericitization.
Area structures include massive sulfide lenses elongate parallel to bedding in metavolcanic rocks. Foliation in metavolcanic rocks trends N10W TO N40W.
Workings include a 1,300 foot deep shaft and older shafts at the South end at 640 feet and 500 feet deep.
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