Arizona Geological Society

Copper Creek Mining District

Pinal County, Arizona

November, 2025



Field trip participants looking east across San Pedro River valley with Mammoth, Arizona and

former San Manuel mine in distance (photo by Dan Laux)


Field trip participants examine geologic map of the area (photo by Dan Laux)


Arizona State University alumni, Dan Laux, Jeff Cornoyer, Mark Beeunas,

and Sam Ybarra (photo by Dan Laux)


Field trip participants examine outcrops at Faraday Copper's Copper Creek Project (photo by Dan Laux)


Old Reliable in-situ leach mine site and remnants of Ranchers Exploration & Development's precipitation plant (1972-1981) looking west along Copper Creek (photo provided by Faraday Copper Corp.)


Ann Pattison examines mineralized breccia outcrop at Copper Creek (photo provided by Dan Laux)


Group photo of field trip participants at Globe Breccia Pipe (photo provided by Dan Laux)


Split core with bornite-chalcopyrite mineralization in Laramide Porphyry (photo by Dan Laux)



Faraday Copper's office and core shed in San Manuel, Arizona (photo by Dan Laux)



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