An Apache Tears and perlite occurrence with some surface workings located in sec. 8, T2S, R12E, about 3½ miles SW of Superior, on National Forest land.
Mineralization is perlite hosted in Arnett Rhyolite.
References:
Eyde, Ted, Wilkinson, P.A.K., and Weiland, E.F. (1986) Field Trip to Selected Industrial Mineral Deposits of Arizona, in Beatty, Barbara, and Wilkinson, P.A.K., editors, Frontiers in Geology and Ore Deposits of Arizona and the Southwest. Arizona Geological Society Digest vo. XVI: 312-318.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10064153, MRDS ID #TC38413; and Dep. ID #10138006, MAS ID #0040210120; and Dep. D #10162267, MAS ID #0040210040.
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Map Reference: 33°16'14"N , 111°8'21"W
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