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Abandoned mine near Quartzsite. Motto: "The Rock Capital of the World" Location of Quartzsite in La Paz County, Arizona. ... Area code: 928: FIPS code: 04-58010:
"Gold Atlas of Quartzsite, Arizona Volume 2 Southern Dome Rock Mountains"; by: Dr. Erik Melchiorre; ISBN 978-0981763149. "Arizona – Quartzsite Area: Things you may NOT have seen in and around Quartzsite, AZ."; by Joe Lange (Author, Photographer) and Dorothy "Tootie" Jacobs (Contributor); Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN 978-1450541312.
"Gold Atlas of Quartzsite, Arizona Volume 2 Southern Dome Rock Mountains"; by: Dr. Erik Melchiorre; ISBN 978-0981763149. Arizona – Quartzsite Area: Things you may NOT have seen in and around Quartzsite, AZ"; by Joe Lange (Author, Photographer) and Dorothy "Tootie" Jacobs (Contributor); Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ...
Salome is located in eastern La Paz County at (33.763728, -113.608555 U.S. Route 60 runs through the community, leading east 54 miles (87 km) to Wickenburg and west 25 miles (40 km) to Interstate 10 between Brenda and Quartzsite.
In the United States, formations of quartzite can be found in some parts of Pennsylvania, the Washington DC area, eastern South Dakota, Central Texas, [9] southwest Minnesota, [10] Devil's Lake State Park in the Baraboo Range in Wisconsin, [11] the Wasatch Range in Utah, [12] near Salt Lake City, Utah and as resistant ridges in the Appalachians ...
The Chicago, Milwaukee, and Saint Paul Railroad built a railroad into the area, reaching Dell Rapids from Egan in 1881. Two large Sioux Quartzite quarries owned by LG Everist are operated via this rail line, which is now operated by LG's subsidiary, the D&I Railroad. The community celebrates its heritage with the annual "Quarry Days" in July ...
The Shinumo Quartzite ranges in thickness from 330 m (1,080 ft) in the Bright Angel Canyon area to 345 m (1,132 ft) at Papago Creek and 405 m (1,329 ft) in the Shinumo Creek area. In the Bright Angel Canyon area, the upper member is about 18 m (59 ft) thick, the upper middle member is about 80 m (260 ft) thick, and the lower middle member is ...
The Mesoproterozoic Dripping Spring Quartzite is a resistant, purple quartzite formation found in central and southeast Arizona, USA. It is a cliff-forming purplish unit found in the lower sections of the Apache Group , units of originally sedimentary layers, but later metamorphosed.