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Onyx Cave (Cave Hill deposit), Greaterville District, Santa Rita Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: USGS Mineral Resources (1913), Pt. 2: 1344.

Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 46, 47, 49;

Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 55.

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

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 118, 152.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10062343, MRDS ID #TC35710; and, Dep. ID #10186427, MAS ID #0040230146.

A former small surface and underground onyx marble deposit located in the SW ¼ sec. 1, T.20S, R.15E. (protracted).

Mineralization is a relatively small deposit of partially massive, brownish travertine in a solution cave in faulted Permian limestone.

Workings are very minor operations in the early 1910's. A few blocks of onyx marble were extracted.





Map Reference: 31°43'3"N , 110°46'9"W

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Mineral List:
  • Aragonite
    var: Flos Ferri
  • Calcite
  • Calcite
    var: Limestone Onyx


    3 entries listed. 1 valid mineral.

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