A manganese group of claims located in West-central & South-central sec. 7 & the NW¼ sec. 17, T1S, R14W. Owned by Hovetter.
Mineralization is manganese oxides, mixed with calcite and brecciated wall rock, in stringers, pods and overlapping lenses, in irregular veins and flat, tabular bodies in a large zone of shears in Tertiary andesite flows.
Workings include open cut operations. This group of claims produced some 250 tons of sorted 18% Mn ore during the period 1953-1954.
References
Farnham, L.L. & L.A. Stewart (1958), Manganese deposits of western Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7843: 87.
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geology Survey Branch Bull. 192, Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona: 173 (Table 4).
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