Flat Tire group (Flat Tire diatomite deposit), Dry Mountain, Whitlock Mts, Graham Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 32°42'54"N
Longitude: 109°28'5"W
A surface U-zeolite-diatomite occurrence/prospect with underground workings located in sec. 22, T8S, R28E. Unpatented mining claims extend into secs. 28, 27, 26, 33, 34 & 36. Lat-long is for the center of the section.
Mineralization is a zeolite occurrence in an altered volcanic ash interbedded with diatomite and U ore on fractures.
References
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report 172-481 (1954): 378.
Peirce, H.Wesley, S.B. Keith and J.C.Wilt (1970), coal, oil, natural gas, helium, and uranium in Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 182: 103-146.
US Atomic Energy Commission RME-157 (1970) Preliminary Reconnaissance for Uranium in Graham, Grant, Greenlee and Maricopa Counties, Arizona, 1950 to 1957.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
USGS Dry Mountain Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources US Lime and Mining Corp. file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Flat Tire Mine file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10062190, MRDS ID #TC35492; and Dep. ID #10048222, MRDS ID #M800310; and Dep. ID #10258420, MAS ID #0040090136.
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