Latitude: 34°42'11"N
Longitude: 113°33'52"W
‡Ref.: Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 109, 178, 233, 279; Wilson, E.D. (1944), Arizona nonmetallics: A summary of past production and present operations, AZ Bur. of Mines Bull. 152; Sheppard, R.A. (1969), Zeolites, in USGS, AZ Bur. of Mines, and US Bur. of Reclamation, Mineral and Water Resources of AZ, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 180: 465; Sheppard, R.A. (1971), Clinoptilolite, of possible economic value in sedimentary deposits of the conterminous US, USGS Bull. 1332-B: B1-B15; Sheppard, R.A. & A. Gude, USGS PP 830; Sheppard, R.A. & A. Gude, USGS Bull. 1354-C; Galbraith, F.W. & Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 103, 107; Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals AZ Dept. of Mines and Mineral Resources Mineral Rpt. 4; Eyde, T., Arizona zeolites, AZ Dept. Min. Resources Mineral Rept. No. 1: 37; MRDS files #10062195, 10210885, 10259130 & 10062339.
A zeolite-bentonite-feldspar-silica-K (glauconitic green sand) deposit locality East of Wikieup in the Big Sandy Valley.
Extensive sand beds of glauconite-coated analcime grains formed from the alteration of glassy volcanic ash in the presence of strong solutions of sodium salts. Chapin Wash formation.
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