Latitude: 33°47'14"N
Longitude: 113°39'38"W
‡Ref.: Dale, V.B. (1959) Tungsten Deposits of Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, and Graham Counties, Arizona. U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5516: 10-11.
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: 148 (Table 4).
Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Rept. 92-10: 8 (Table 1).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10113714, MAS ID #0040120246.
A former surface and underground W-Cu mine located in the SW¼ sec. 7, T5N, R13W (Salome 15 minute topo map), on land of unknown status. Owned and operated by Gary & Adams of Arizona (1955).
Mineralization is sparse, sporadic scheelite grains and masses in narrow, discontinuous quartz veins in Mesozoic granite intrusive. Narrow, discontinuous diabase dikes. Copper oxides and staining.
Workings include pits and a shaft. Some 7 tons of scheelite ore was shipped in the mid-1950's.
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