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Whetstone Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 31°48'41"N
Longitude: 110°25'5"W
‡Ref.: Hess, F.L. (1909) Note on a wolframite deposit in the Whetstone Mountains, Arizona, in Contributions to economic geology, 1908; pt. I, metals and nonmetals except fuels: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 380, p. 164-165.

University of Arizona Bull. 41 (1916-17), Mineralogy of Useful Minerals in Arizona: 24.

Burnette, C.R. (1957) Geology of the Middle Canyon, Whetstone Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 55 p.

Tyrrell, W.W., Jr. (1957) Geology of the Whetstone Mountain area, Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona: New Haven, Conn., Yale University, Ph.D. dissertation, [236 p.], 8 sheets, scale 1:62,500, 31,680, 1:125,000, and 1:528,000. Ullmer (1978) Journal of Geochemical Exploration: 9(2-3): 235-236.

Graybeal, F.T. (1962) Geology and gypsum deposits of the southern Whetstone Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 80 p.

Ross, C.A., and Tyrrell, W.W., Jr. (1965) Pennsylvanian and Permian fusulinids from the Whetstone Mountains, southeast Arizona: Journal of Paleontology: 39(4): 615-635.

DeRuyter, V.D. (1979) Geology of the Granitic Peak stock area, Whetstone Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 121 p.

Archibald, L.E. (1982) Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Bisbee Group in the Whetstone Mountains, Pima and Cochise Counties, southeastern Arizona: Tucson, University of Arizona, M.S. thesis, 195 p.

McColly, R.A., and Scott, D.C. (1982) Mineral investigation of the Whetstone Roadless Area, Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment Open File Report MLA 129-82, 22 p.

Wrucke, C.T., McColly, R.A., Werschky, R.S., Scott, D.C., Bankey, V.L., Kleinkopf, M.D., Staatz, M.H., and Armstrong, A.K. (1983) Mineral-resource potential map of the Whetstone Roadless Area, Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1614-A, 10 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:48,000.

Wrucke, C.T., and Armstrong, A.K. (1984) Geologic map of the Whetstone Roadless Area, Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona; summary report: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1614-B, 1 sheet, scale 1:48,000.

Wrucke, C.T., and McColly, R.A. (1984) Whetstone Roadless Area, Arizona, in Marsh, S.P., and others, eds., Wilderness mineral potential - Assessment of mineral resource potential in U.S. Forest Service lands studied 1964-84, vol. 1: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1300, p. 126-129.

Bankey, V., and Kleinkopf, M.D. (1985) Geophysical maps of the Whetstone Roadless Area, Cochise and Pima Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1614-C, 1 sheet, scale 1:48,000.

Archibald, L.E. (1987) Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Bisbee Group in the Whetstone Mountains, southeastern Arizona, in Dickinson, W.R., and Klute, M.A., eds., Mesozoic rocks of southern Arizona and adjacent areas: Arizona Geological Society Digest: 18: 273-282.

Wrucke, C.T., and Armstrong, A.K. (1987) Paleozoic stratigraphic section in Dry Canyon, Whetstone Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, in Hill, M.L., ed., Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America: Geological Society of America, Centennial Field Guide Volume 1, p. 29-34.

Schreiber, J.F., Jr., Armin, R.A., Connolly, W.M., Stanton, R.J., Jr., Armstrong, A.K., Lyons, T.W., and Wrucke, C.T. (1990) Upper Paleozoic stratigraphy of the Whetstone Mountains, Cochise and Pima Counties, 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. 104-113.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 142.

Yale Peabody GNIS database.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Aragonite
Autunite
Bornite
Brushite
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
'Clay'
'Coal
var: Lignite'

Dolomite
Fluorite
Gypsum
var: Selenite
Hematite
Hydroxylapatite
Illite
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Nitrocalcite
Nontronite
'Petrified Wood'
Pyrite
Quartz
Quartz
var: Bull Quartz

Rectorite
Scheelite
Tyuyamunite
Wolframite


27 entries listed. 19 valid minerals.

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