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Quintonite Tufa deposit, Deer Creek Village Subdivision, Tonto Basin, Tonto Basin Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USAi
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Quintonite Tufa depositDeposit
Deer Creek Village SubdivisionVillage
Tonto BasinBasin
Tonto Basin Mining DistrictMining District
Gila CountyCounty
ArizonaState
USACountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
34° 1' 5'' North , 111° 21' 18'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
34.01806,-111.35500
GeoHash:
G#: 9w0cd0cc8
GRN:
N23W66
Type:
Deposit
Köppen climate type:
Csa : Hot-summer Mediterranean climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Gisela570 (2011)11.6km
Oxbow Estates217 (2011)18.4km
Tonto Basin1,424 (2011)21.4km
Payson15,345 (2017)23.8km
Star Valley2,277 (2017)27.8km
Mindat Locality ID:
132907
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:132907:3
GUID (UUID V4):
0


A former limestone quarry located in sec. 20, T8N, R10E, about 2½ miles S of Deer Creek Village along highway 87 S of its junction with highway 188, on Nationaln Forest land.

Mineralization is tufa hosted in lacustrine sediments.

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References

MRDS database Dep. ID #10110160, MRDS ID #TC38406.
Niemuth, N.J. (1987), Arizona Mineral Development 1984-1986, Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources Directory 29, 46 pp.
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