Ref.: Paige, Sidney (1909) Marble prospects in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, in Contributions to economic geology, 1908; pt. I, metals and nonmetals except fuels: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 380: 299-311.
Burchard, E.F. (1914) Chapter on Arizona, in: Mineral Resources of the U.S. 1913, Part II, Nonmetals: 1342-1343.
Wilson, E.D. & G.H. Roseveare (1949), Arizona Nonmetallics, A Summary of Past Production and Present Operations, 2nd. Edition (revised), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 155: 48.
Townsend, R.C. (1962) Stone in Arizona, an economic study: Phoenix, Arizona Development Board, 50 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:2,500,000: 19-20.
Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187: 72 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10014837, MRDS ID #D011817; and, Dep. ID #10161494, MAS ID #0040030671.
A former small surface marble quarrying operation located in sec. 20, T.15S., R.29E.
Mineralization is bands and lenses with NW trend and dipping N, in
massive and fractured, white and colored marmolized Pennsylvanian Horquilla Limestone.
Workings are open quarries. Minor production occurred in the early 1900's, amount unknown.
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Map Reference: 32°6'50"N , 109°24'24"W
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