Sheldon Mine
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Sheldon Mine, Walker, Arizona, tailings pond, ca. 1920's.
The Sheldon Mine was a copper mine located in Yavapai County, Arizona at an elevation of 6,699 feet. It also produced secondary commodities of lead, gold and silver.
The mine, about a mile southwest of Walker, was estimated to have produced about $200,000 prior to 1922. The vein, which is in the Southwestern portion of the granodiorite area, strikes N. 30O E., dips from 70° to 80° SE., and is traceable for more than half a mile on the surface. Prior to 1922, it had been opened by a 650-foot vertical shaft with several hundred feet of drifts on the 250, 450, and 650-foot levels, and oxidized ore had been stoped in places between the 200-foot level and the surface. In 1922, the mine made about 185 gallons of water per hour. A 200-ton concentration flotation plant Was built in 1924 and several thousand tons of copper-lead ore, carrying some gold and silver, was treated in 1925, 1926, 1929, and 1930. During this period, the shaft was deepened to 1,280 feet and several thousand feet of development work was done.
Text from Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Original 1934, revised 1967
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