Gypsum claims (Land deposit; Land Gypsum deposit), Land, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 31°51'11"N
Longitude: 110°14'26"W
‡Ref.: Stone, R.W. (1920), Gypsum deposits of the United States, USGS Bull. 697, 326 pp.: 50.
Keith, Stanton B. (1969), Gypsum, in USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 1969, Mineral and water resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180.
Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2: 17.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources file data.
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10060145, MRDS ID #TC10102; and, Dep. ID #10185306, MAS ID #0040030722.
A Gypsum occurrence located 1 mile West of the town of Land, 9 miles South of Benson; secs. 13, 23, 25 T17S, R20E; and, T18S, R21E. NOTE: Alternate coordinates provided: 31.9414N, 110.2594W. Apparently not located within a recognized mining district.
Mineralization is a gypsum deposit. Up to 10 feet thick bed of gypsum interbedded with caliche, clay, sandstone, and gravel under a thick layer of overburden.
Thick overburden limits exploration and exploitation.
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