Latitude: 33°27'18"N
Longitude: 114°36'29"W
Ref.: Farnham, L.L. & L.A. Stewart (1958), Manganese deposits of western Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7843: 82.
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: 181 (Table 4).
A former surface and underground Mn mine located in West-central sec. 1 & East-central sec. 2, T1N, R21W. Owned at times, or in part, by Snipers; Smith; Jarrell; and, Richardson.
Mineralization is pyrolusite mixed with brecciated wall rock in shoots along a fracture zone in Tertiary andesitic volcanics.
Workings include a shaft, adit, and open cut operations. This mine was worked as early as 1930 and later in 1954-1955. It produced some 300 long tons of ore averaging about 20% Mn.
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