Latitude: 34°17'34"N
Longitude: 113°31'8"W
Ref.: Lasky, S.G. & Webber, B.N. (1949), Manganese resources of the Artillery Mountains region, Mohave County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 961.
Farnham, L.L. & L.A. Stewart (1958), Manganese deposits of western Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7843: 71.
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 115 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10259407, MAS ID #0040120323.
A former surface Mn mine located in the SW¼ sec. 16, T11N, R12W, on land of unknown status. Owned and operated at times, or in part, by Rogers (1953) and Smith (1954), both of Arizona.
Mineralization is manganese ores, probbly mixed pyrolusite and psilomelane, in a flat-lying lens, or large pod, in Tertiary sedimentary bed above a basalt flow.
Workings include an open pit. Production was over 900 long tons of 22% Mn in 1953-1954.
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