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Harcuvar Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 92.

Reynolds, S.J. (1980) Harquahala, Harcuvar, Buckskin, and Rawhide Mountains - Geology, in Coney, P.J., and Reynolds, S.J., Cordilleran metamorphic core complexes and their uranium favorability, with contributions by G.H. Davis, S.B. Keith, P.F. Trevor, S.H. Lingrey, C.F. Kluth, D.C. Ferris, J.F. Dubois, and J.J. Hardy: U.S. Department of Energy Report GJBX-258(80), p. 560-567.

Reynolds, S.J. (1982) Multiple deformation in the Harcuvar and Harquahala Mountains, west-central Arizona, in Frost, E.G., and Martin, D.L., eds., Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Colorado River region, California, Arizona, and Nevada - Anderson-Hamilton Volume: San Diego, Cordilleran Publishers, p. 137-142.

Reynolds, S.J., and Spencer, J.E. (1984) Geologic map of the Aguila Ridge - Bullard Peak area, eastern Harcuvar Mountains, west-central Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Open-File Report 84-04, 2 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Spencer, J.E., and Welty, J.W. (1985) Reconnaissance geology of mineralized areas in parts of the Buckskin, Rawhide, McCracken, and northeast Harcuvar Mountains, western Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Open-File Report 85-06, 31 p.

Frost, E.G., and Okaya, D.A. (1986) Geometry of detachment faulting and folding between the Rawhide-Buckskin-Harcuvar-Harquahala Mountains, Arizona, and the Colorado Plateau from reprocessed industry seismic data [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs: 18(2): 107.

Roddy, M.S. (1986) K-metasomatism and detachment-related mineralization, Harcuvar Mountains, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. prepublication manuscript, 84 p.

Spencer, J.E. (1987) Reduction of crustal flexural rigidity during folding of crystalline rocks in the Harcuvar and Whipple metamorphic core complexes, west-central Arizona and southeastern California [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs: 19(7): 853.

Brooks, W.E. (1988) Recognition and geologic implications of potassium metasomatism in upper-plate volcanic rocks at the detachment fault at the Harcuvar Mountains, Yavapai County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-0017, 9 p.

Roddy, M.S., Reynolds, S.J., Smith, B.M., and Ruiz, J. (1988) K-metasomatism and detachment-related mineralization, Harcuvar Mountains, Arizona: Geological Society of America Bulletin: 100(10): 1627-1639.

Drewes, H.D., DeWitt, E., Hill, R.H., Hanna, W.F., Knepper, D.H., Jr., Tuftin, S.E., Reynolds, S.J., Spencer, J.E., and Azam, S. (1990) Mineral resources of the Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona, Chapter F, in Mineral resources of Wilderness Study Areas - Western Arizona and part of San Bernardino County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1701-F, p. F1-F29, 1 sheet, scale 1:50,000.

Richard, S.M., Laubach, S.E., Reynolds, S.J., and Spencer, J.E. (1990) Mesozoic thrusting, synplutonic deformation, and Miocene overprinting, Harcuvar complex: A section through the pre-Tertiary crust of west-central Arizona, in Gehrels, G.E., and Spencer, J.E., eds., Geologic excursions through the Sonoran Desert Region, Arizona and Sonora, Geological Society of America, Cordilleran section, 86th Annual Meeting, Tucson Ariz., March 14-16, 1990, Field-Trip Guidebook: Arizona Geological Survey Special Paper 7, p. 66-75.

Spencer, J.E., and Reynolds, S.J. (1992) Mineral deposits of the Bullard mineral district, Harcuvar Mountains, Yavapai County, Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Open-File Report 92-01, 19 p.

Reynolds, S.J., and Spencer, J.E. (1993) Geologic map of the western Harcuvar Mountains, La Paz County, west-central Arizona: Arizona Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-08, 9 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000.

Yarnold, J.C. (1994) Tertiary sedimentary rocks associated with the Harcuvar core complex in Arizona (U.S.A.): Insights into paleogeographic evolution during displacement along a major detachment fault system: Sedimentary Geology: 89: 43-63.

Bryant, Bruce, Wooden, J.L., Gehrels, G.E., and Spencer, J.E. (1996) Plutonic and metamorphic history, northern part of Harcuvar metamorphic complex, Buckskin and eastern Harcuvar Mountains, west-central Arizona [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs: 28(5): 51.

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Actinolite
Baryte
Bornite
Brochantite
Calcite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Copper
Cuprite
Djurleite
Hematite
Hematite
var: Specularite

Limonite
Magnesiohornblende
Magnetite
Malachite
Pseudomalachite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Jasper
Scheelite
Siderite
Wollastonite


24 entries listed. 21 valid minerals.

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