Ref.: Peirce, H. Wesley (1969), Diatomite, in USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines & U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180 (USGS Bull.871): 337-342.
Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2: 15.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1989) Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Mineral card files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10060238, MRDS ID #TC10207; and, Dep. ID #10234196, MAS ID #0040030743.
A former surface Diatomite mine located in sec. 27, T17S, R20E. Not located within a recognized mining district.
Mineralization is a lacustrine diatomite deposit 1.52 meters thick. The deposit is hosted in lake sediments.
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