Latitude: 34°0'0"N
Longitude: 112°30'24"W
‡Ref.: Jahns, R.H. (1952), Pegmatite Deposits of the White Picacho District, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 162: 71, 103-104.
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).
USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1969), Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180, 638 pp.
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.
USGS Morgan Butte Quadrangle map.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10060347, MRDS ID #TC10723; and, Dep. ID #10113414, MAS ID #0040251316.
A former surface Mica-Be-Nb-Ta mine and pegmatite located in secs. 30 & 31, T.8N., R.2E. (R.3W. ?[Meeves]), in Independence Gulch. Owned by Earl F. Anderson of Mesa, AZ.
Mineralization is a very large, zoned, mica-bearing pegmatite dike, 15 to 50 feet thick and averaging 25 feet thick and is traceable for a distance of at least 1,800 feet along strike. Includes graphic granite.
Workings include an open cut 30 feet long, 15 to 18 feet wide and 20 feet high at the face.
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