Mummy Mountain is a mountain situated in Paradise Valley

Paradise Valley, Arizona

Paradise Valley is a small, affluent town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. According to the 2005 Census Bureau, the population of the town was 14,558. Despite the town's relatively small area and population compared to other municipalities in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Paradise...

, Arizona

Arizona

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, United States

United States

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. The mountain is located at latitude 33°32'32.94"N longitude 111°57'40.92"W and rises to an elevation of 2,021 feet (616.00 m) above sea level. The formation is predominantly Precambrian

Precambrian

The Precambrian is the name which describes the large span of time in Earth's history before the current Phanerozoic Eon, and is a Supereon divided into several eons of the geologic time scale...

 granite

Granite

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 with outcroppings of quartz

Quartz

Quartz is the second-most-abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust, after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz,...

 and schorl.

The slopes of the mountain incorporate suburban residential development while the upper summit areas are conservations sites. As the only part of the Phoenix Mountains

Phoenix Mountains

The Phoenix Mountains are a mountain range located in central Phoenix, Arizona. With the exception of Mummy Mountain, they are part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve...

 not held within the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, portions of Mummy Mountain are protected by the Mummy Mountain Preserve Trust and the town of Paradise Valley.

Name

The formation originally was known as Windy Gulch and Horseshoe Mountain but was later renamed by miner and businessman Charles Mieg. Mieg, who purchased most of the property in the 1940s for $12000. He observed that the mountain's profile resembled an Egyptian

Ancient Egypt

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 mummy

Mummy

A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...

 lying down. When he began selling parcels for development, Mieg marketed the land using the name Mummy Mountain.

Conservation

The Mummy Mountain Preserve Trust is a 501 (c)(3) charitable trust

Charitable trust

A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes, and is a more specific term than "charitable organization".-United States:...

 established in 1997 to preserve the natural landscape of approximately 320 acres (1.3 km²) along the mountain ridge. Local celebrities including Marshall Trimble

Marshall Trimble

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, Joe Garagiola

Joe Garagiola

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, Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler

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 and Bil Keane

Bil Keane

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supported a campaign asking property owners for donations of land. Through private donations and transfer of public land from Maricopa County, 218 acre (0.88221548 km²) were controlled by the trust by August 1999.