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New Water Mts, La Paz Co., Arizona, USA

Latitude: 33°31'44"N
Longitude: 113°54'45"W
Ref.: Lane, M.E. (1986) Mineral investigation of a part of the New Water Mountains Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-125), La Paz County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment Open File Report MLA 57-86, 25 p.

Adrian, B.M., Smith, D.B., Hill, R.H., Roemer, T.A., Vaughn, R.B., and Delaney, T.A. (1987) Analytical results and sample locality map of stream-sediment, heavy-mineral concentrate, and rock samples from the New Water Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-0339, 34 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500.

Sherrod, D.R., and Koch, R.D. (1987) Structure and stratigraphy of Mesozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks in the New Water Mountains, southwestern Arizona, in Dickinson, W.R., and Klute, M.A., eds., Mesozoic rocks of southern Arizona and adjacent areas: Arizona Geological Society Digest: 18: 81-90.

Sherrod, D.R., Smith, D.B., Koch, R.D., Hanna, W.F., Pitkin, J.A., and Lane, M.E. (1989) Mineral resources of the New Water Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona, Chapter B, in Mineral resources of Wilderness Study Areas: Southwestern and south-central Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1702-B, p. B1-B18.

Sherrod, D.R., Koch, R.D., and Grubensky, M.J. (1990) Geologic map of the Vicksburg quadrangle, La Paz County, Arizona [New Water Well, New Water Mts., Vicksburg, and Bear Hills 7.5 min]: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1684, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500.

Sherrod, D.R. (1993) Tertiary stratigraphy of New Water Mountains, Arizona, in Sherrod, D.R., and Nielson, J.E., eds., Tertiary stratigraphy of highly extended terranes, California, Arizona, and Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2053, p. 183-184.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
'Apatite Supergroup'
Baryte
Calcite
Cerussite
Chlorargyrite
Chrysocolla
Conichalcite
Dioptase
Epidote
Fornacite
'Heulandite'
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Limonite
Malachite
Mimetite
Mordenite
Murdochite
Phlogopite
Plancheite
Plattnerite
Pyromorphite
Quartz
Shattuckite
'Stilbite'
Tangeite
Thomsonite-Ca
Vanadinite
Wulfenite


28 entries listed. 23 valid minerals.

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