Abandoned Mine Jerome Arizona is a photograph by Bob and Nadine Johnston which was uploaded on March 23rd, 2013.
Abandoned Mine Jerome Arizona
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. Built in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill, overlooking... more
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Abandoned Mine Jerome Arizona
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Bob and Nadine Johnston
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Photograph - Enhanced Digital Painting - Nikon Photography - Gift Or Greeting And Note Cards, Cheaper By The Dozen :o)
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Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. Built in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill, overlooking the Verde Valley, it is more than 5,000 feet above sea level. It is about 100 miles north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444.
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The town owes its existence mainly to two ore bodies that formed about 1.75 billion years ago along a ring fault in the caldera of an undersea volcano. Tectonic plate movements, plate collisions, uplift, deposition, erosion, and other geologic processes eventually exposed the tip of one of the ore bodies and pushed the other close to the surface, both near Jerome. In the late 19th century, the United Verde Mine, developed by William A. Clark, extracted ore bearing copper, gold, silver, and other metals from the larger of the two. The United Verde Extension Mine, owned by James Douglas, Jr., depended on the other huge deposit. In total, the copper deposits discovered in the vicinity of Jerome were among the richest ever found in any time or place.
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