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Little Dragoon Mountains placers, Cochise District, Little Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 32°1'50"N
Longitude: 110°5'58"W
Ref.: Wilson, E.D. (1941), Tungsten Deposits of Arizona, Geological Series No. 14, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 148: 45.

Dale, V.B., Stewart, L.A., and McKinney, W.A. (1960), Tungsten deposits of Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz Counties., Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5650: 53.

Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geol. Sur. Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 57 (Table 4).

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10137058, MRDS ID #D000756, MAS ID #040030172.

A surface placer W deposit and former W mine located T.16S., R.22E, on land of unknown status.

Mineralization is scattered placer hübnerite in erosion rubble derived from quartz veins cutting altered Laramide quartz monzonite (Texas Canyon stock).

Workings were handpicking operations and small wet and dry separators. Several tons of tungsten concentrates were produced in the early 1900's.

Mineral List

Hübnerite


1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.

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