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Gold Basin District, White Hills, Cerbat Mts (Cerbat Range), Mohave Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Prescott, AZ: 70.

Schrader, F.C. (1907), The mineral deposits of the Cerbat Range, Black Mountains, and Grand Wash Cliffs, Mohave County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 340: 53-83.

Schrader, F.C. (1909), Mineral deposits of the Cerbat Range, Black Mountains, and Grand Wash Cliffs, Mohave County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 397: 226.

Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137:
76.

Thomas, B.E. (1949), Ore deposits of the Wallapai district, Arizona, Economic Geology: 44: 663-705.

Galbraith, F.W. & Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 50.

Theodore, Ted G., et al (1987), USGS Professional Paper 1361.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 235, 370, 410.

This district was started in the early 1870's. It is a gold mining area located about 35 miles North of Mineral Park in the southern portion of the White Hills, Cerbat Range, northern portion of Mohave Co.

The mineralization is contained in large, gold-bearing quartz dikes. The veins are mesothermal in nature in Pre-Cambrian granite and schist. The gangue is quartz with local siderite.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Albite
Ankerite
Baryte
Calcite
var: Ferroan Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
'Copper Stain'
Cuprite
'Feldspar Group'
Fluorite
Galena
'Garnet'
Gold
Hematite
var: Specularite
Jarosite ?
'K Feldspar'
Limonite
Magnetite
Malachite
'Mica Group'
Microcline
Molybdenite
Mottramite
Muscovite
var: Sericite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Milky Quartz
Scheelite
Siderite
Sphalerite ?
'Tourmaline'
Vanadinite
Wolframite
Wulfenite
Zircon


56 entries listed. 27 valid minerals.

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