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White Marble Mine

Past Producer in La Paz county in Arizona, United States with commodities Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Silica
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105107
MRDS ID TC10191
Record type Site
Current site name White Marble Mine
Alternate or previous names White Marble Group, Marble Mine, Amber
Related records 10162264

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -113.41327, 33.79256 (WGS84)
Relative position IN HARQUAHALA MOUNTAINS, WEST OF THE MARICOPA - LA PAZ COUNTY LINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

La Paz(county)

Arizona(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Socorro Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salome(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Phoenix(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Centennial Wash(hydrologic unit)

Lower Gila-Agua Fria(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Gila(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management AZ)

Bureau of Land Management AZ BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arizona La Paz

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Gila and Salt River 05N 011W 9 NE4 Arizona

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary
Stone, Crushed/Broken Primary
Limestone, General Primary
Silica Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • WHITE MARBLE WITH LESSER OCCURRENCES OF PINK MARBLE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore
Marble Ore
Quartzite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Escabrosa Limestone;Kaibab Limestone
    Rock description Escabrosa Lst;Kaibab Lst

Nearby scientific data

(1) -113.41327, 33.79256
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, CONTORTED, BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1962
Production years 1962-1976, 1979

Mining district

District name Harquahala District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Sun Landscaping And Supply
    First year 1979

Comments on development

  • QUARRIES WERE OPERATED BY THE U.S. MARBLE CO. FROM 1962-1968, FISHER ENTERPRISES FROM 1969-1970. IN 1971, FISHER ENTERPRISES BECAME THE SUPERIOR COMPANIES. IN 1979, SUN LANDSCAPING AND SUPPLY OPERATED THE QURRIES FOR A BRIEF TIME. IN 1982, VERMONT STONE AND MINERALS LTD. (LANDGROVE, VERMONT) EXPLORED THE DEPOSIT WITH SEVERAL DRILL HOLES. IN 1986, MURCO WALL PRODUCTS EVALUATED THE DEPOSIT AS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF FINE-GROUND CALCIUM CARBONATE USED IN JOINT CEMENT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KEITH, S.B., 1978, INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN YUMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: ARIZONA BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL TECHNOLOGY BULLETIN 192, 185 P.

  • Deposit

    PHILLIPS, K.A., 1987, ARIZONA INDUSTRIAL MINERALS: ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL REPORT 4, 185 P.

  • Deposit

    PEIRCE, H.W., 1990, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS CARD FILE.

  • Deposit

    EYDE, T.H., AND EYDE, D.T., 1992, PRESENT AND PAST PRODUCERS OF WHITE CALCIUM CARBONATE PRODUCTS IN ARIZONA, IN HOUSER, B.B., ED., INDUSTRIAL MINERALS OF THE TUCSON AREA AND SAN PEDRO VALLEY, SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA: TUCSON, ARIZONA, ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP, APRIL 4-5, 1992, GUIDEBOOK, P. 37-47.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1989 Bolm, Karen S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1993 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Arizona resources

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