Latitude: 32°54'0"N
Longitude: 109°37'23"W
A diatomite deposit located in secs. 19 & 35, T6S, R27E, near Solomonville. Sec. 19 was used for lat/long location. Deposits extend into T6S, R28E.
Mineralization is lacustrine diatomite. High-quality diatomite crops out as a thin erosional remnant. The diatomite bed has cherty layers and is interbedded with clay and alluvium.
References
Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of Arizona: 87.
Peirce, H.W. (1969), Diatomite, in USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines & U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180 (USGS Bull.871): 337-342.
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 Safford Quadrangle map.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Diatomite file.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10060233, MRDS ID #TC10202.
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