Latitude: 33°55'57"N
Longitude: 113°48'6"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: 18-19.
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).
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10283496, MAS ID #0040120448.
A W-Cu (Be) mine located in North-central sec. 27, T7N, R15W, on land of unknown status. Owned and operated by Mr. Elmer (1954).
Mineralization is sparse, sporadic scheelite in pockets and pods near the contact of micaceous and calcareous schist and marblized limestone overlying granite. Numerous diabase and rhyolite dikes and some barren quartz veins.
Workings include shallow cuts and pits. This mine was worked sporadically in the early and middle 1950's and produced some 125 units of WO3.
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