‡Ref.: Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise County, Arizona: 91 (Table 4).
Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2.
McColly, R.A., and Scott, D.C. (1982) Mineral investigation of the Whetstone Roadless Area, Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment Open File Report MLA 129-82, 22 p.: 8.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
Chatman, M.L. (1994) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 2-94: 15-16.
Arizona Bureau of Mines files.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10105241, MRDS ID #TC35371; and, Dep. ID #10185571, MAS ID #0040030312.
A silica quarry (smelter flux) located in the SW ¼ sec. 24, T.18S., R.19E. Discovered 1923. First produced 1950.
Mineralization is a large bull quartz body between Precambrian alaskite and quartz monzonite.
Workings are an open cut. Several tens of thousand tons of quartz were produced from 1955 to 1959.
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