Latitude: 33°48'20"N
Longitude: 114°4'12"W
Ref.: Harrer, C.M. (1964), Reconnaissance of Iron Resources in Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8236: 124.
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geol. Sur. Br. Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma Co., Arizona: 170 (Table 4).
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027715, MRDS ID #M003931; and, Dep. ID #10161871, MAS ID #0040120382.
A former iron mine complex located in North-central sec. 6, T.5N., R.17W. Owned by Smith & Ellis.
Mineralization is lenses and stringers and massive replacement bodies of hematite in a faulted complex of metamorphosed Mesozoic limestone, and Precambrian gneiss and schist, assaying some 61% Fe, 8% SiO2 and with a low sulfur and phosphorus content.
Workings include open pit operations. In 1917 some 19 carloads of iron ore were shipped.
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