Latitude: 33°14'49"N
Longitude: 110°37'55"W
An asbestos prospect located in sec. 20, T2S, R17E, along a hill slope, just North of Red Whiskers Spring and about ½ mile SE of Hog Mountain, on Indian Reservation land.
Mineralization is a vein deposit with a linear ore body hosted Mescal Limestone that has been split into at least 3 segments by widespread diabase intrusions. The beds strike NW and dip 25SW. The ore zone is 121.92 meters long, 0.03 meters wide, strikes NW and dips 25SW.
Assay data: The asbestos fiber is semi-harsh to harsh.
References
Bromfield, C.S. & Shride (1956), Mineral Resources of the San Carlos Indian Reservation, AZ, USGS Bull. 1027-N: 679.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10026833, MRDS ID #M000457; and Dep. ID #10161229, MAS ID #0040070555.
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