Winkelman Silica Mine (Copper Basin group; Silver King; Babbit claims; Winkelman Silica property), Crozier Peak area, Cottonwood District, Tortilla Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

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A group of Cu claims and former silica mine located in the W½ sec. 25, T5S, R14E (per MRDS file 10234703), or sec. 30, T5S, R15E (per MRDS file 10064568)(Winkelman 7.5 minute topo map), about ½ mile E of Crozier Peak (4½ miles WSW of Winkelman), on land of mixed status. Owned by Joe and Albert Bidtich of Arizona (1960).

Mineralization is Troy Quartzite and includes oxidized copper minerals.

References

Elevatorski, E.A. (1978), Arizona Industrial Minerals, AZ Dept. of Mineral Resources, Minerals Report No. 2.: 57.

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.

Niemuth, N.J. & K.A. Phillips (1992), Copper Oxide Resources, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Open File Report 92-10: 14 (Table 1).

USGS Winkelman Quadrangle map.

USGS 7.5 minute Hayden Quadrangle map.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Copper Basin group file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Copper Hill group file.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources U file.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10064568, MRDS ID #TC38977; and, Dep. ID #10105243, MRDS ID #TC35379; and, #10234703, MAS ID #0040210250.

Mineral List

Quartz

1 entry listed. 1 valid mineral.