Camp Verde Salt Mine (Wingfield Gypsum; Sodium Products Corp. Mine; Graham Wingfield Sulphate Mine; Graham-Wingfield Sulfate Ground), Camp Verde, Camp Verde District, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Ref.: Tenny, J.B. (1928), The Mineral Industries of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 125: 115.
Wilson, E.D. & G.H. Roseveare (1949), Arizona Nonmetallics, A Summary of Past Production and Present Operations, 2nd. Edition (revised), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 155: 43.
USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1969), Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180 (USGS Bull.871): 378, 422.
Thompson, J.R. (1983): Camp Verde Evaporites. Mineralogical Record 14 (2): 85-90
Eyde, Ted, Wilkinson, P.A.K., and Weiland, E.F. (1986) Field Trip to Selected Industrial Mineral Deposits of Arizona, in Beatty, Barbara, and Wilkinson, P.A.K., editors, Frontiers in Geology and Ore Deposits of Arizona and the Southwest. Arizona Geological Society Digest vol. XVI: 312-318.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 118.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Graham-Wingfield Sulfate Ground file.
USGS Camp Verde Quadrangle map.
USGS Middle Verde Quadrangle map.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10062403, MRDS ID #TC35800; and, Dep. ID #10186199, MAS ID #0040250843; and, Dep. ID #10186271, MRDS ID #TC10151, MAS ID #0040251610; and, Dep. ID #10283456, MAS ID #0040250397.
A former surface and underground Salt-Clay-Gypsum mine located about 2 miles West of Camp Verde, SE of Clarkdale, on the West side of the Verde River. This mine produced Pre-Columbian (was working in 1492), and worked again in the 1920's to 1933. NOTE: Alternate coordinates provided: 34.5833N, 111.8944W.
Mineralization is hosted in the Verde Formation. Local structures include the Verde Fault Zone.
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Map Reference: 34°32'42"N , 111°52'26"W
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