Quartzite Mountain, (Stanley Butte [nearby]; Quartzite Mountain Garnets), Stanley District, Santa Teresa Mts, San Carlos Indian Reservation, Graham Co., Arizona, USA

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A former surface specimen and abrasive (garnet) mine located in sec. 36, T4S, R19E, N of Stanley Butte on the S slope of Quartzite Mountain about 10 miles SE of Coolidge Dam.

Mineralization is andradite garnet which occurs with other silicate minerals in a zone of metamorphosed Paleozoic limestone near a granitic intrusive of Laramide age.

References

Ross, C.P. (1925a), Geology and ore deposits of the Aravaipa and Stanley mining districts, Graham County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 763.

Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 43, 94.

Sinkankas, J. (1964), Mineralogy for amateurs, D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ.

Sinkankas, J. (1966), Mineralogy; a first course, D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ.

Peirce, H.W. (1969), Gem Materials, in USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines & US Bureau of Reclamation, Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180 (USGS Bull.871): 359.

Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2: 33, 70.

Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.

Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 111, 245, 346.

USGS San Carlos Reservoir Quadrangle map.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10060331, MRDS ID #TC10390; and Dep. ID #10283123, AS ID #0040090283.

Mineral List

Andradite var: Topazolite

Baryte Fluorite

Hedenbergite Quartz

6 entries listed. 5 valid minerals.