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Gadsden Copper Company property (Gadsden Copper Co. group; Gadsden shaft), Jerome, Verde District, Black Hills (Black Hill Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Weed, W.H. (1918) The Mines Handbook, Vol. XIII: 401-402.

Yavapai Magazine (1918) February, 1918: 5 (Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott, AZ).

Lindgren, W. (1926), USGS Bull. 782: 94; Anderson, C.A. & S.C. Creasey (1958), Geology and ore deposits of the Jerome area, Yavapai Co., AZ, USGS PP 308: 94 (?), 154.

USGS Cottonwood Quadrangle map.

U.S. Bureau of Land Management Mining District Sheet 57.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10137708, MRDS ID #M002670, MAS ID #0040250754.

A former underground Cu-Ag-Au mine located on 39 claims about 1½ miles SE of Jerome and west of the Jerome Del Monte property. Owned by the Gadsden Copper Co. Closed in 1920.

Most of the claims are east of the Verde fault and extend from north of Mescal Gulch to south of Del Monte Gulch.

Cu-Ag-Au ore was located SW of the shaft on the 1200 level (?) where the Verde fault was cut 1,450 feet west of the shaft.

Workings included a 4-compartment shaft at 1,200 feet deep and 5,619 feet of drifts & crosscuts.





Map Reference: 34°44'34"N , 112°5'50"W

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