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Morenci Chase Creek copper camp

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: mescal glass, mining company store ceramics and tins, and worker household glass in creek banks and terraced lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Chase Creek

Sister copper camp to Clifton; the historic old Morenci was largely erased by pit expansion, so surviving ground is on active claims, Sanborn from 1904.

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