Latitude: 33°16'15"N
Longitude: 113°57'17"W
A manganese mine located in the NW¼ sec. 7, T2S, R16W. Owned at times, or in part, by Carter; and, Falls.
Mineralization is pyrolusite with minor psilomelane and manganite, in irregular, disconnected bodies of veinlets and bunches, with calcite, in fracture zones in fragmented Cretaceous or Tertiary andesite, capped by rhyolite.
Workings are open cut operations. Production has been some 230 long tons of 27% Mn ore in 1953-1954.
References
Farnham, L.L. & L.A. Stewart (1958), Manganese deposits of western Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7843: 84-85.
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: 155 (Table 4).
Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.
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