Ref.: Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2:
Arizona State Land Department Mineral Lease List (1979) - Leases 1562-1567, 883 (?).
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.
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.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10062164, MRDS ID #TC35465; and, Dep. ID #10186811, MAS ID #0040190698.
A former small marble quarry located in the SW¼ sec. 19, T18S, R11E, 50 miles SW of Tucson on state and federal lands. Produced 1959-1965. Owned by Dale C. Brittain and Arthur Hendrickson (1964); Operated by the Brittain-Hendrickson Mining Co. (1965). The White Hope marble deposit is on Arizona state mineral lease lands and federal land of the southwest side of the Sierrita Mountains.
Mineralization is limestone/marble of the Martin Formation.
This marble contains small amounts of pyrite that oxidize when exposed to weather and stain the marble. The marble is typically fine-grained and jointed. The zones of high calcium carbonate rocks are separated by zones of dolomite.
There are 3 quarries in this quarter section. The Paul Lime Company estimated 4 to 5 million tons of marblized limestone from 7 drill holes in 1961.
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Map Reference: 31°50'32"N , 111°15'27"W
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