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Weary Mine (Weary Lode No. 2; McKusick Mosaic Mine), Kellner Picnic Area area, Pinal Mountains District, Pinal Mts, Gila Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 33°20'12"N
Longitude: 110°48'19"W

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A surface Kaolin mine located in sec. 22, T1S, R15E, about 1 mile E of the Kellner Picnic Area, about 3½ miles S of Little Acres and about 1¼ miles W of the Ice House CCC Campgrounds. Owned and operated by Mc Kusick Mosaic, of Globe, AZ (1991).

Mineralization is related to the east limb of the Miami Fault. Located in a metallic mineral mining district and probably of hydrothermal origin.

An open pit mine active as of December, 1991.

References

Patterson, S.H. (1969) Clay, in: Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 180, USGS Bull. 871: 331.

Directory of Active Mines in Arizona, Department of Mineral Resources (1983), Sep. 1983.

Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.

Phillips, K.A., Beard, R.R., Niemuth, N.J., and Bain, D.R. (1991) Active Mines in Arizona – 1992: Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources Directory 39, 20 pp.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Weary Lode Patent file.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10060265, MRDS ID #TC10264; and Dep. ID #10258350, MAS ID #0040070685.

Mineral List

Kaolinite

1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.

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