Coon Creek Mine (York Mine), Shady, Polk Co., Arkansas, USA

Located 6 miles NW of "Albert Pike." Workings consist of open cuts and shallow pits. A manganese mine with ore comprised of mineralization in fractured Arkansas Novaculite. Restarted from earlier workings in 1956 & closed in 1959. Restarted 1972 and again in 1986 for specimens.

Refs.:
Rocks & Min.:63:118 & 64:295
Kidwell (1981).

Mineral List:

	Beraunite

	Cacoxenite

	Cryptomelane

	Dufrénite

	Goethite

	Kidwellite

	Laubmannite

	Limonite

	Opal

	Phosphosiderite

	Planerite

	Quartz

	Rockbridgeite

	Sigloite

	Strengite

	Turquoise

16 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.

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