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Dos Cabezas Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Coll, A. (1910) The Dos Cabezas district of Arizona: Mining World [Chicago]:33: 816.

Guild, F.N. (1910), The Mineralogy of Arizona, The Chemical Publishing Co., Easton, PA.

Sarle, C.J. (1922) Sketch of the geology of the Dos Cabezas Mountains of southeastern Arizona [abs.]: Science, new series: 55: 544.

Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 153: 13.

Miller, R.D., and Weathers, G. (1953) [Mineral Park area, Dos Cabezas district]: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Preliminary Reconnaissance Report, File A-P-74, 1 p. [also available in U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Report RME-154, p. 84].

Sabins, F.F., Jr. (1957) Stratigraphic relations in Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas Mountains, Arizona: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin: 41(3): 466-510.

Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 106.

Cooper, J.R. (1960) Reconnaissance map of the Willcox, Fisher Hills, Cochise, and Dos Cabezas quadrangles, Cochise and Graham Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Field Studies Map MF-231, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500.

Cooper, J.R. (1961), Turkey-track porphyry - a possible guide for correlation of Miocene rocks in southeastern Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Digest: 4: 17-35.

Sabins, F.F., Jr., and Ross, C.A. (1965) Stratigraphy and fusulinids of Naco Group in Chiricahua and Dos Cabezas Mountains, Arizona, in Fitzsimmons, J.P., and Lochman-Balk, C., eds., Guidebook of southwestern New Mexico II: New Mexico Geological Society 16th Field Conference Guidebook: 148-157.

Erickson, R.C. (1968) Geology and geochronology of the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, in Titley, S.R., ed., Southern Arizona Guidebook III: Arizona Geological Society, p. 192-198.

Erickson, R.C. (1968) Welded intrusive volcanic breccias in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Arizona, Appendix A-III, in Damon, P.E., Correlation and chronology of ore deposits and volcanic rocks, Annual Progress Report no. COO-689-100: Tucson, University of Arizona, Geochronology Laboratories, p. AIII.1-AIII.41. Erickson, R.C. (1969) Petrology and geochemistry of the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, Ph.D. dissertation, 441 p.

Erickson, R.C. (1969) Petrology and geochemistry of the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, Ph.D. dissertation, 441 p.

Clemons, R.E., and James, H.L. (1978) Supplemental road log no. 4; Willcox to Bowie via Dos Cabezas and Apache Pass with historical notes on Dos Cabezas, Apache Pass, Cochise, the Butterfield Overland Mail, and Fort Bowie, in Callender, J.F., and others, eds., Land of Cochise--southeastern Arizona: New Mexico Geological Society 29th Field Conference Guidebook, p. 125-142.

Erickson, R.C. (1981) K-Ar and Rb-Sr geochronology of the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Digest: l3: 185-193.

Calder, S.R. (1982) The geology of, and known mineral occurrences within, Wilderness Study Area 4-65, Dos Cabezas Mountains: Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Open-File Report 83-10, 75 p.

Abrams, G.A., Moss, C.K., and Schutter, T.A. (1985) Principal facts for gravity stations in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-0222, 10 p.

Condie, K.C., Bowling, G.P., and Vance, R.K. (1985) Geochemistry and origin of early Proterozoic supracrustal rocks, Dos Cabezas Mountains, southeastern Arizona: Geological Society of America Bulletin: 96(5): 655-662.

Drewes, Harald (1985) Geologic map and structure sections of the Dos Cabezas quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map I-1570, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Abrams, G.A. (1986) Geophysical maps of the Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1873-A, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Bowling, G.P. (1986) Geology and geochemistry of Proterozoic supracrustal rocks from the western Dos Cabezas Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Socorro, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, M.S. thesis.

Drewes, H.D., Abrams, G.A., Hassemer, J.R., and Zelten, J.E. (1986) Mineral resources of the Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Cochise County, Arizona, Chapter D, in Mineral resources of Wilderness Study Areas - southeastern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1703-D, p. D1-D27, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Zelten, J.E. (1986) Mineral resources of a part of the Dos Cabezas Mountain Wilderness Study Area (AZ-040-065), Cochise County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment Open File Report MLA 2-86, 31 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Drewes, Harald D., et al (1988), Volcanic and Structural Controls of Mineralization in the Dos Cabezas Mountains of southeast Arizona, USGS Bull. 1676: 21 (Figure 6), 20.

Sease, G.D. (1993) Structural and kinematic analysis of Middle Proterozoic tectonites, Dos Cabezas Mountains, Arizona: Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University, M.S. thesis.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 239, 329-330, 367.

Yale Peabody GNIS database.





Map Reference: 32°12'30"N , 109°34'31"W

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Mineral List:
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Andalusite
var: Chiastolite

Anorthite
var: Labradorite

Augite
Azurite
Beryl
Bismutite
Bornite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
var: Auriferous Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinobisvanite
Epidote
'Feldspar Group'
Fluorite
Galena
var: Argentiferous Galena
'Garnet Group'
Gladite
Gold
Graphite
Gypsum
Hematite
Magnetite
Malachite
'Marble'
'Mica Group'
Molybdenite
Mottramite
var: Duhamelite

Muscovite
Nontronite
Pekoite
Pyrite
var: Auriferous Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
Scheelite
'Serpentine Group'
Siderite
Sphalerite
Sternbergite
Stolzite
Talc
Topaz
Tremolite
Uytenbogaardtite
'Wad'
Wollastonite


267 entries listed. 37 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region:
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  • Arizona
    • Cochise Co.
      • Dos Cabezas Mts
          • Bean Canyon
            • Central Copper Co. group
          • Bowie Mt.
          • Luzena
            • Buckeye Canyon

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