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Bright Star Mine (Firestone group), Plomosa District, Plomosa Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 33°38'30"N
Longitude: 114°5'54"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: 23-24.

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: 167 (Table 4).

Arizona Bureau of Mines file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10209820, MAS ID #0040120116.

A former surface and underground W mine located in the NW¼SE¼SE¼ sec. 34, T4N, R18W, on land of unknown status. Owned at times, or in part, by Aplington. Glenn & Fleming had unspecified involvement here (1953).

Mineralization is spotty, fine-grained disseminations and small crystals of scheelite in discontinuous quartz veinlets and in fractured Mesozoic calcareous schist.

Workings include a shaft(s), adit, and surface cuts. This mine was worked sporadically in the 1940's and 1950's but produced only some 17 units of WO3.

Mineral List

Scheelite


1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.

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