Latitude: 33°26'49"N
Longitude: 110°49'32"W
A Cu-Ag-Au deposit and limestone quarry located in secs. 9 & 10, T1N, R15E, just N of Burch along highway 188, and 4 miles N of Miami. Owned by Hoopes and Co.
Mineralization is the Escabrosa Limestone.
Quarried for metallurgical flux and lime.
References
Arizona Mining Journal (1917) September, 1917: 21.
Arizona Mining Journal (1917) December, 1917: 25.
Weed, W.H. (1918) The Mines Handbook, Vol. XIII: 457-458.
Wilson, E.D. (1944), Arizona nonmetallics: A summary of past production and present operations, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 152: 25.
Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2: 31.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 1969, Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources North Dominion Copper Mining and Development Corp. file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Hoopes Lime Quarry file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10105106, MRDS ID #TC10188; and Dep. ID #10282896, MAS ID #0040070518.
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