‡Ref.: Townsend (1962): 390.
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: 154 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
DeWitt, Ed, et al (1988), USGS Bull. 1701-C, Mineral Resources of the Harquahala Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz and Maricopa Counties, Arizona: C2 (Figure 1).
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
Eyde, T.H. and Eyde, D.T. (1992) Present and Past Producers of White Calcium Carbonate Products in Arizona. In: Houser, B.B., editor, Industrial Minerals of the Tucson Area and San Pedro Valley, Southeastern Arizona: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Field Trip, April 4-5, 1992, Guidebook: 37-47.
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Arizona Bureau of mines file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10105107, MRDS ID #TC10191; and, Dep. ID #10162264, MAS ID #0040120622.
A former surface marble and quartzite quarry located in the center (NE¼)of sec. 9, T5N, R11W, W of the Maricopa - La Paz County line, on BLM-administered land. These quarries were operated at times, or in part, by the U.S. Marble Co. (1962-1968); Fisher Enterprises Inc. (1969-1970), which became the Superior Companies in 1971. First produced in 1962 and operated until 1976, and again in 1979. Operated by the Sun Landscaping and Supply Co. (1979) for a brief time.
Mineralization is irregular, contorted, and bonded metamorphosed Paleozoic sedimentary limestone and quartzite beds, cut locally by diabase dikes. The host rocks are the Escabrosa Limestone and the Kaibab Limestone. Deposit contains white marble with lesser occurrences of pink marble.
Quarry operations. Has produced considerable crushed marble and quartzite. In 1982, Vermont Stone and Minerals Ltd. (Landgrove, Vermont) explored the deposit with several drill holes. In 1986, Murco Wall Products evaluated the deposit as a potential source of fine-ground calcium carbonate used in joint cement.
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