Daisy Mountain Rock club plans 2nd meeting
Staff Report ~ 6/2/2010

The new Daisy Mountain Rock and Mineral Club will conduct their next meeting at 6:45 p.m. Thursday at North Valley Regional Library.
More than a dozen members and friends attended the group’s first field trip last month when the group travelled to comb a limestone quarry above Jerome, to collect 250 million year old marine fossils.
The group picked through rocks in the quarry and walked the surrounding slopes. The area in and around the quarry was once home to Brachiopods, bivalve mollusks, Gastropods (marine snails), Nautiloids, Ammonites, Crinoids and a host of other early sea life. The Bluewall Limestone offered up its ancient abundance to the collectors. Everyone left with specimens to show friends and relatives.
After leaving the quarry the Club drove to the parking lot of the United Verde Mine. Three of the Club members are geologists, two of whom spent part of their working lives at the Mine. Before it was closed the United Verde Mine produced more than $1.3 billion of copper in 1950 dollars.