Ref.: Wilson, E.D. & G.H. Roseveare (1949), Arizona Nonmetallics, A Summary of Past Production and Present Operations, 2nd. Edition (revised), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 155: 47-48.
Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2: 17.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Special Report 13 (1987): 64.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
Eyde, T.H. and Eyde, D.T. (1992) Present and Past Producers of White Calcium Carbonate Products in Arizona. In: Houser, B.B., editor, Industrial Minerals of the Tucson Area and San Pedro Valley, Southeastern Arizona: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Field Trip, April 4-5, 1992, Guidebook: 37-47.
Brown, S.D. (1993) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open-File Report, Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 12-93, 188 p.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10062161, MRDS ID #TC35462; and, Dep. ID #10160997, MAS ID #0040030711.
A former surface Marble quarry located in secs. 28 and 29, T16S, R30E, on private land. The property includes a patented 143.8 acre placer claim.
Mineralization is an extensive deposit of marblized Excabrosa Limestone.
This was the first productive marble deposit in Arizona. It was patented in 1912. The deposit is remote from major population centers and is surrounded by the Coconino National Forest.
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Map Reference: 32°0'48"N , 109°17'34"W
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