Latitude: 31°38'0"N
Longitude: 111°37'36"W
Ref.: Dale, V.B., Stewart, L.A., and McKinney, W.A. (1960), Tungsten deposits of Cochise, Pima, and Santa Cruz Counties., Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5650: 105-106.
Balla (1962): 59.
Meeves, H.C., Harrer, C.M., Salsbury, M.H., Konselman, A.S., and Shannon, S.S., Jr. (1966), Reconnaissance of beryllium-bearing pegmatite deposits in six western states, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8298: 20 (Table A-1): 59.
Keith, Stanton B. (1974), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, Arizona: 109 (Table 4).
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10026915, MRDS ID #M001036; and, Dep. ID #10259131, MAS ID #0040190287.
A former small surface and underground W-Fluorspar-Be mine/group of claims located in the NE ΒΌ sec. 4, T.21S., R.7E., 11 miles NW of Sasabe. Owned at times, or in part, by Carlson; Fernstrom; and, Cummins.
Mineralization is sporadic scheelite associated with minor fluorite and beryllium-bearing vesuvianite in shear zones in quartzite cut by narrow pegmatite dikes. The ore body is 1.83 meters wide, strikes E-W and dips 60N.
Local structures include calcareous schist that strikes NW.
Workings include shallow shaft, open cuts, and pits to 13.72 meters deep. About 2 tons of tungsten concentrates were produced in 1953.
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