Regional Report: Ligier Marble Quarries (Dragoon Marble Quarries; Ligier-Arizona Marble Quarries), Dragoon Pass, Middle Pass District, Dragoon Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Ref.: Burchard, E.F. (1914) Chapter on Arizona, in: Mineral Resources of the U.S. 1913, Part II, Nonmetals: 1343. Wilson, E.D. & G.H. Roseveare (1949), Arizona Nonmetallics, A Summary of Past Production and Present Operations, 2nd. Edition (revised), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 155: 48. Mieritz, R.E. (1958) Ligier Marble Property, 5p. (unpublished report). Cooper, J.R. (1960) Reconnaissance map of the Willcox, Fisher Hills, Cochise, and Dos Cabezas quadrangles, Cochise and Graham Counties, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Field Studies Map MF-231, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500. Townsend, R.C. (1962) Stone in Arizona, an economic study: Phoenix, Arizona Development Board, 50 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:2,500,000: 19-22. Bain, G.W. (1963) Marble Occurrences in the Dragoon Pass Area, unpublished geological assessment, 33p. Johnson, A.L. (1963) Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Field Engineers Report on Dragoon Marble Quarries, 1p. Cooper, J.R. & L.T. Silver (1964), Geology and Ore Deposits of the Dragoon Quadrangle, Cochise County, Arizona, USGS PP 416: 138-139. Keith, Stanton B. (1973), Arizona Bureau of Geology & Mineral Technology, Geol. Sur. Branch Bull. 187, Index of Mining Properties in Cochise Co., AZ: 64 (Table 4). Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals, 2nd. Edition, Arizona Department of Mines & Minerals Mineral Report 4, 185 pp. Eyde, T.H. and Eyde, D.T. (1992) Present and Past Producers of White Calcium Carbonate Products in Arizona. In: Houser, B.B., editor, Industrial Minerals of the Tucson Area and San Pedro Valley, Southeastern Arizona: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Geological Society Field Trip, April 4-5, 1992, Guidebook: 37-47. Chatman, M.L. (1993) U.S. Bureau of Mines Open File Report Mineral Land Assessment (MLA) 30-93: 10-16, D11-D12, D19-D20. MRDS database Dep. ID file #10014808, MRDS ID #D011762; and, Dep. ID #10161457, MAS ID #0040030827; and, Dep. ID #10208094, MAS ID #0040030825; and, Dep. ID #10210059, MAS ID #0040030170. A former small surface marble products quarry complex located in the SE ¼ sec. 10, North-central sec. 27 and North-central sec. 35, T.16S., R.23E. Discovered by L.R. Ligier in 1909. Produced 1946-1965, 1978, and 1985. Additional names associated with this group of quarries: Yuma claims; Ligier Red Marble Quarry; Apache Yellow Quarries. NOTE: Alternate coordinates provided: 32.0053N, 110.005W. Mineralization is marbelized, fractured, and folded white and colored Mississippian, Pennsylvanian and Permian limestones (Earp Limestone; Escabrosa Limestone). Workings are quarries operations. A relatively small production of dimension stone and crushed marble were produced.

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