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Cottonwood Pass deposit, Cottonwood Pass, Salome, La Paz County, Arizona, USAi
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Cottonwood Pass depositDeposit
Cottonwood PassPass
SalomeCensus-designated Place
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° 52' 54'' North , 113° 39' 0'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
33.88194,-113.65000
GRN:
N23W68
Type:
Deposit
Köppen climate type:
BWh : Hot deserts climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Salome1,530 (2011)11.7km
Wenden728 (2011)12.0km
Vicksburg597 (2011)18.0km
Utting126 (2011)22.4km
Bouse996 (2011)33.3km
Mindat Locality ID:
46985
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:46985:3
GUID (UUID V4):
0


A Baryte occurrence and former mine located in secs. 6 & 7, T6N, R13W, near Salome.

Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in schist and granite. Iron-stained baryte occurs in faulted schist in the vein and along the hanging wall of a fault. Vein gangue is black chert.

Production was one carload of hand-sorted ore mined and shipped in 1938.

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1 valid mineral.

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Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates
ⓘBaryte7.AD.35BaSO4

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OOxygen
Oⓘ BaryteBaSO4
SSulfur
Sⓘ BaryteBaSO4
BaBarium
Baⓘ BaryteBaSO4

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Link to USGS MRDS:10060298
Link to USGS MRDS:10283027

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References

Peirce, H. Wesley (1990), Arizona Geological Survey Industrial Minerals card file.
U.S. Bureau of Mines file data.
Wilson, E.D. (1944) Arizona nonmetallics: A summary of past production and present operations, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 152.
Galbraith, Dr. Frederic W.; Brennan, Dr. Daniel J. (1959) Minerals of Arizona (3rd ed.). University of Arizona Press. 116pp.p.58
Elevatorski, E. A. (1971) Arizona Fluorspar. Arizona Department of Mineral Resources. p.80-81.
Phillips, Ken A. (1987) Arizona Industrial Minerals - Mineral Report 4 (2nd ed.). Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources. 197pp.
Anthony, John W.; Williams, Sidney A.; Bideaux, Richard A.; Grant, Raymond W. (1995) Mineralogy of Arizona (3rd ed.). University of Arizona Press.p.128
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