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Rare Metals Mine (Waldren Mining Company Mine), Aquarius Mts (Aquarius Range; Peacock Range), Mohave Co., Arizona, USA

Polycrase-(Y)
Rare Metals Mine, Aquarius Mts, Mohave Co., Arizona, USA

Photo: Jerry A. Baird
Latitude: 34°50'27"N
Longitude: 113°33'16"W
Granite pegmatite containing rare-earth minerals.

‡Ref.: Kauffman, A.J., Jr. & Jaffe, H.W. (1946), Chevkinite (tscheffkinite) from Arizona, American Mineralogist: 31: 582-588.

Heinrich, E. Wm. (1960), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 167: 12-18.

Meeves, H., et al (1966), Reconnaissance of beryllium-bearing pegmatite deposits in six western states, U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8298: 21 (Table A-1).

Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report. No. 2: 41.

Peirce, H.W. (1990), AZ Geol. Sur. Industrial Minerals card file.

Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd. ed.: 965.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Mohave files.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 104, 133, 139, 194, 219, 227, 303, 429.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10027655.

A former U-Be-REE-Bi-Nb-Ta-Garnet-Feldspar-Mica mine located in sec. 21, T.17N., R.12W. (sec. 26, T.17N., R.14W. - Meeves), about 30 miles South of Hackberry and about 55 miles SE of Kingman on the West side of the Aquarius Mountains. Owned by L.L. Edgerton and the Waldren Mining Co.

The mine is located in Sec. 26, T.17N., R.12W. The road to the mine is gated about one half mine south of the mine due to a grazing lease. However, the mine is on BLM property. GPS N34-49-37.50 W113-31-33.13. submitted by Jerry A. Baird

Mineralization is pegmatites with a few 2 to 40 feet (12 meters) wide. Parallel pegmatite dikes 2 to 100 feet wide and up to 2,000 feet long.

Workings include several surface cuts: No. 1 = 60 feet long; No. 2 = the eastern cut across a pegmatite 40 feet long and 8 to 10 feet wide by 25 feet high (at face); No. 3 = a small pit; and, No. 4 = a discovery (prospect cut); an adit, a shaft.

Mineral List

Albite
Allanite-(Ce)
Allanite-(Y)
'Apatite'
Beryl
Bismite
Bismutite
Chevkinite-(Ce)
Cronstedtite
Euxenite-(Y) ?
'Fergusonite'
Fluorite
'Gadolinite'
'Garnet'
Hematite
Microcline
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Polycrase-(Y)
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Samarskite-(Y)
Titanite
Wolframite
Yttrotantalite-(Y) ?


25 entries listed. 18 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.

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