Latitude: 33°52'40"N
Longitude: 113°45'24"W
Ref.: 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: 11.
Stewart, L.A. & A.J. Pfister (1960), Barite deposits of Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5651: 79-80.
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: 149 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10064832, MRDS ID #TC39712; and, Dep. ID #10161988, MAS ID #0040120249.
A small former Baryte-Cu mine located in the North-central (SW¼ per MRDS) sec. 7, T6N, R14W. Owned by Bunker.
Mineralization is a vein deposit with platy baryte and iron-stained, cherty gangue and minor copper staining, in a narrow vein along a fault in Precambrian schist.
Workings are surface openings. Several carloads of handpicked barite were produced and shipped in 1938.
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