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White Picacho District, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

‡Ref.: Jahns, R.H. (1952), Pegmatite Deposits of the White Picacho District, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 162.

London, D., and Burt, D.M. (1978) Lithium pegmatites of the White Picacho district, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties [with road log], Arizona, in Burt, D.M., and Pewe, T.L., eds., Guidebook to the geology of central Arizona, 74th Cordilleran Section Meeting, Geological Society of America, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Special Paper no. 2, p. 61-72.

London and Burt (1982) American Mineralogist 67: 97-113.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 184, 196, 201, 260, 275, 288, 301, 334, 342, 344, 345, 372, 400, 423, 426, 430.

The southern-most limit of the White Picacho District lies in northern Maricopa County.

Mineralization is a swarm of mostly lithium-bearing pegmatites in schist.




Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities


Mineral List:
Actinolite
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Amblygonite
'Apatite'
Beryl
Biotite
Calcite
'Chalcedony'
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Columbite
'Columbite-Tantalite'
Cookeite
Cuprite
Descloizite
Diopside
Elbaite
Epidote
'Feldspar Group'
'Garnet Group'
Gold
Hematite
'Hornblende'
'K Feldspar'
Lepidolite
Limonite
Lithiophilite
Malachite
Manganite
'Mica Group'
Molybdenite
Montebrasite
Muscovite
Powellite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyromorphite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Scheelite
Schorl
Silver
Spodumene
'Tourmaline'
'var: Watermelon Tourmaline'
Wolframite
Wulfenite
Zinnwaldite


90 entries listed. 32 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region:
USA
 
  • Arizona
    • Maricopa Co.
      • White Picacho District
        • Little San Domingo Wash area

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