Latitude: 33°59'26"N
Longitude: 111°9'38"W
A former surface Baryte-Fluorspar mine located on 5 unpatented claims in sec. 31, T7N, R12E (USBM gives township as T8N), about 1 mile slightly N of W of Chalk Mountain. Discovered 1956. Owned by South Texas Aggregates (1981).
Mineralization is a high-grade baryte vein deposit with lenticular to irregular orebody(ies) hosted in faulted quartzitic schist (also rhyolite and limestone). The ore zone is 30.48 meters long, 1.07 meters thick, strikes N75W and dips vertically.
Workings include an open pit.
References
Stewart, L.A. & Pfister (1960), Barite deposits of Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5651: 12.
USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1969), Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180: 314.
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.
Sawyer, M.B., Gurmendi, A.C., Daley, M.R., and Howell, S.B. (1992) Principal Deposits of Strategic and Critical Minerals in Arizona, U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication, 334 pp.
Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 127.
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Top Hat Mine file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10060253, MRDS ID #TC10245; and Dep. ID #10185995, MAS ID #0040070661.
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