Snowball Mine (Snowball property; Snowball fluorite deposit; Snowball-Monolith Mine), Weldon Hill, Ellsworth District, Harquahala Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 33°44'33"N
Longitude: 113°19'2"W
‡Ref.: Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 223; Denton, T.C. & C.A. Kumke (1949), Investigation of Snowball fluorite deposit, Maricopa Co., AZ, US Bur. Mines Rept. Inv. 4540; Hewett, D.F. (1964), Veins of hypogene manganese oxide minerals in the southwestern United States, Econ.Geol.: 59: 1429-1472; Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of AZ: 43; Allen, G.B. (1985), Economic Geology of the Big Horn Mountains of west-central Arizona: AZ Bur. of Geol. & Min. Tech. open-file report 85-1; US Bur. Mines card file; MRDS files #10027659 & 10234861.
A former surface and underground Fluorspar-Baryte-Cu mine discovered in 1943 by D.B. Powell. Produced 1957-1958.
33.65250; -113.31500, or 33.74280; -113.31720.
Mineralization is a vein deposit with lens-shaped or tabular orebodies. Ore control was faulting and alteration was propylitization and silicification. The ore concentration process was hydrothermal. Area schistosity and banding strike NW and dip steeply, faulting.
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