Latitude: 34°0'10"N
Longitude: 112°30'10"W
‡Ref.: Jahns, R.H. (1952), Pegmatite Deposits of the White Picacho District, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 162: 104-105.
Meeves, H., et al (1966), Reconnaissance of beryllium-bearing pegmatite deposits in six western states, U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8298: 21 (Table A-1).
Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, Arizona Department of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2: 62.
Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp.
Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 303.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10060337, MRDS ID #TC10708; and, Dep. ID #10256444, MAS ID #0040251307.
A former surface and underground Li-mica-Be-Nb-Ta mine in pegmatite located in the SE¼ sec. 30, T.8N., R.2E., in Independence Gulch, at about 2,800 feet East of the Midnight Owl Mine.
Mineralization is a zoned, lithium-bearing pegmatite dike 500 feet long and up to 25 feet wide, that dips steeply, trends North and is traceable for a distance of several hundred feet along strike. The dike appears to be 4 to 25 feet thick.
Workings are shallow open cuts.
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