GSA RESOURCES INC. KILAUEA CRUSHERS INC. Crushed, sized white marble used for landscape, plaster, ORACLE RIDGE MINING PARTNERS 7660 N. Busiress Park Drive, Tucson, AZ 85743 - Phone P.O.Box 10606, Glendale, AZ 85318-0606 - Phone (602) feed supplements, and specialty aggregate. Markets in Ari­ P.O. Box 70, San Manuel, AZ 85631 - Phone (520) 576- (520) 744-8845 - Employees: 8 (including contractors). 843-1888 - Fax (602) 561-1528 - Employees: 12. zona, adjacent states and Texas. 1412, Fax (520) 576-1539 - Employees: 95. President ...... Ted H. Eyde President ...... Bill Nichols Owner ...... Mike Smith Genr' ." - 'urigny Vice President ...... Daniel T. Eyde Kilauea Quarry T6N R2W Sec. 5 Owner ...... Gary Smith Sup< rachan Lyles Mine T13N R6W Sees. 11, 12 Quarry located 12 miles east of Morristown - Crushed Plant Manager ...... K.C. Marsden Acc4 :awyer Open pit clay mire located west ofKirkland - Hectorite clay rhyolite for desert landscaping. Sales ...... Rick Erman Pure closed [ayden - Used as viscosifier and thickener in phannaceuticals and Office Manager ...... Linda Carter Mill Scoles cosmetics. LEVIN STONE COMPANY, INC. Plant Superintendent ...... Jim Heier Chie is Rice Grace Chabazite Mine Tl2S R29E Sees. 1, 2, 12 P.O. Box 95, Ashfork, AZ 86320 - Phone (520) 637-2288 - Mine Superintendent ...... Lany Steingasser Oracle JUoge Mme 111;:) KI0C i::>ec. 10 Open pit mine located 13 miles north of Bowie - Chabazite Employees: 35-50 - Processing plant located on Double A Queen Creek Marble Quarry TlS R13E Sec. 17 Underground mine producing copper, gold, and silver - - Used for cation exchange media, specialty adsorbants, Ranch Road 2 miles north of Ashfork - Quarries and proc­ Marble quany - Primary crushing and screening plant Located 25 miles northeast of Tucson - Column flotation deodorizers, and RAD waste treatment for adsorbing Cs 13 esses sandstone from nine deposits - Pwchases sandstone mill- 1020 TPD - Ships concentrates to custom smelter. and stJO from independent quarries - Specializes in band cut hearths, MINERALS RESEARCH Burro Creek Clay Tl4N RI0W Sec. 7 table tops, and dimensional cuts. AND RECOVERY, INC. OUTLAND RESOURCES INC. Open pit clay mire located 8 miles southwest of Bagdad President ...... Phil Levin Tucson Office and Plant 2260 E. Andy Devine, Kingman, 86401 - Phone (520) along Burro Creek - Saponite clay - Shipped out of state for Manager ...... Lyle Levin 4620 S. Coach, Tucson, 85714 - Phone (520) 748-9362 - 753-1444 - Fax (520) 753-1444 (call first) - Employees: 8 manufacture into viscosifiers for detergents and drainage Transportation & Maintenance Supervisor. . . Van Falls Employees: 54. (Plus contracted services). aid for treating pulp for fme white paper made from recycled President ...... Manjit Chopra President ...... Patti Lewis paper fibers. LITTLE HILL MINES INC. Plant Manager ...... Michael Vick Vice President ...... Charlie Starkebaum P.O. Box 332, Oracle, AZ 85623 - Phone (520) 896-2245 - Plant Superintendent and Sales ...... Chris Wells Seligman Quarry T23N R6W See. 32 HARBORLITE CORPORATION Employees: 12. Ajo Plant and Slag Stockpile Tl2S R6W Sec. 23 Shipley Pit T25N RIOW See. 28 P.O. Box 960, Superior, AZ 85273 - Phone (520) 689-5723, President ...... Dave McGee Highway 85, Ajo, 85321 - Phone (520) 387-7682 - Proc­ Produces dolomite, sandstone, and natural colored aggre­ FAX (520) 689-5720 - Employees: 12 - Perlite crushing, General Superintendent ...... Pete Ruiz, Jr. esses copper smelter slag for roofmg granules, abrasives, gates for landscape and speciality aggregate. screening, and dJying plant located 2 miles west of Superior Gold HiD Mine TlOS R15E Sec. 5 ftltration media, nuclear shielding, and ship ballast. - Two open pit perlite mines, located 2 miles southwest of Open pit mine - Located 6 miles southwest of Oracle - PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY Superior - Used in the manufacture of filter media for Copper bearing silica flux for Asarco's Hayden copper MORTON SALT DIVISION Flagstaff Office ftltering pharmaceuticals, chemicals, sugar, and beverages smelter and decorative rock for landscaping. Morton International 1300 S. Yale, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 - Phore (520) 774-5253 and as an agricultural fertilizer carrier. 13000 W. Glendale Ave., Glendale, AZ 85307 - Phone - Employees: 66. Plant Manager ...... Louie Lucero MADISON GRANITE (602) 247-3000 - Employees: 38. President ...... W. Howard Carson Assistant Manager ...... Bob Farmer 7050 Grand Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85301 - Phone (602) Facilities Manager ...... Geron Turnquest Vice President, Operations ...... Gaty L. Melvin Seeretary - Orders & Transportation Jackie Alvarez 931-7760 - Employees: 6. Environmental Coordinator/Safety Mgr. Michele Schuler General Superintendent, Mires ... C. Scott Williams Superior Perlite T2S R12E Sec. 9 President ...... Stan Novak Morton Salt Mine T2N Rl W See. 2 Director, Human Resources ...... Tony Baca Madison Granite T5N, R2E Sec. 24 Solution mining via wells - Solar evaporation of brines - Director of Engineering...... Dan Cartwright HARLEY GRAY STONE COMPANY Open pit granite quany - Located east of Interstate 17, 4 Produces salt for water softeners, domestic, agricultural, Director of Accounting ...... Sheryl Sizler P.O. Box 323, Paulden, AZ 86334 - Phone (602) 237-3831 miles south of Carefree Rd. - Crushed granite products and industrial use. Manager, Coal Operations . .. Charles J. Stenftenagel and (520) 636-2436 - Employees: 25-35 - Quarries located for desert landscaping. Manager, Reclamation & Local Affairs . . Teddy Begay 8 miles oortheast ofDrake - Quarries and processes Arizona NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY Senior Mgr. Environmental Affairs .. Brian P. DWlfee flagstone into flagging, dimension stone, and tiles. McKUSICK MOSAIC Gold Bond Building Products Division Manager, Compliance ...... Wayne Helgedick Owner ...... Carl Gray Route 1, Box 35-D, Globe, AZ 85501 - Phone (520) 425- 1414 E. Hadley St., Phoenix, AZ 85034 - Phone (602) Manager, Engineering Mire ...... Doug Bolone Office Administrator 5051 or 425-8428 - Employees: 3. 258-9321 - Employees: 58 - Wallboard plant - Wallboard Black Mesa Mine T35N R18E Sec. 5 (phoenix phone number) ...... Nancy McCabe Co-owner ...... Robert & Charmion McKusick joint cement plant. P.O. Box 605, Kayenta, AZ 86033 - Phone (520) 677-5040 Flagstone Quarries Co-owner ...... Kathleen Condit Plant Manager ...... · Gary McEwen - Employees: 331 - SUlface coal mire - Located approxi­ Weary Lode Mine TIS R15E See. 22 " Office Manager ...... · .. Wendy Self mately 30 miles southwest of Kayenta. KESSON AND KESSON SUlface clay mire located 5 miles south of Globe - Used for Production Manager ...... · .. Wes Gross Mire Superintendent ...... Buck Woodward P.O. Box 174, Globe, AZ 85502 - Phone (520) 425-8452- tile and wind chimes, cosmetic additives, sealants, horticul­ Joint Cement Quality Control . . . · .. NickTuhus Assistant Superintendent, 1st Shift ... Bany L. Grass Employees: 10. tural mixes, and slip glazing material. Feldman Quarry T6S R16E See. 27 Assistant Superintendent, 2nd Shift . Douglas C. Botone Owner ...... Stewart Kesson Star Route, Box 3990, Winkelman, AZ 85292 -Phone (520) Assistant Superintendent, 3rd Shift. . . . Tim Kaszela Copper Hill Mine TlN R15E See. 15 MINERAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. 357-7180 - Employees: 5 - Open pit gypsum mire located Safety Supervisor ...... Keith Grass Silica flux for Cyprus Miami copper smelter - Mine located Superior Marble Division 12 miles south of Winkelman - Crude gypsum shipped to Kayenta Mine T36N R1SE Sec. 9 northwest of Globe. 21555 East Ocotillo, Queen Creek, AZ 85242 - Phone (602) Phoenix plant for manufacture of plaster board. P.O. Box 605, Kayenta, AZ 86033 - Phone (520) 677-5008 987-1916, Fax (602) 987-1917 - Employees: 20 - Plant Quany Superintendent ...... David Klein - Employees: 511 - SUlface coal mine - Located 30 miles located at the intersection of Rittenhouse and Ocotillo in southwest of Kayenta. Queen Creek - Marble crushing and screening plant - Mire Superintendent ...... Robert D. Boone

Arizona Directory of Active Mines Arizona Directory of Active Mines 12 13 Directory of Active Mines In Arizona 1998

Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources MINE INDEX

MINE NAME (COUNTY) PAGE MINE NAME (COUNTY) PAGE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES Ajo Plant & Slag Stockpile (pima) ...... 15 Mission (pima) ...... 9 Anasazi Stoneyard (Maricopa) ...... 8 More Sand, Moon Sand (Coconino) ...... 18 AND MINERAL RESOURCES Andrada Marble Quarry (pima)...... 13 Morenci (Greenlee) ...... 16 AshforkPlant & Quarries (Yavapai) ...... 19 Morton Salt (Maricopa) ...... IS Arizona Gold (Navajo) ...... 17 Nelson Quarries & Plant (Mohave) ...... 11 Arizona Picture Rock (Coconino) ...... 17 New Cornelia (pima) ...... 16 H. Mason Coggin, Director Bagdad (Yavapai) ...... 12 New River Slate, Anasazi (Maricopa) ...... 8 Black Canyon Mill (Maricopa) ...... 11 New River Slate, Building Prd. (Maricopa) .... 11 " Black Cat Quarries (Coconino) ...... 8 Pantano Clay Pits (pima) ...... 12 Black Mesa (Navajo) ...... 15 Phoenix Brick Yard (Maricopa) ...... 12 Blaser Stoneyard (Yavapai) ...... 8 Picacho Quany (Maricopa) ...... 14 1502 West Washington Blue Bell Schist Quarry (Yavapai) ...... 8 Pinto Valley (Gila) ...... 10 Phoenix, Arizona 85007 Bowie Chabazite (Cochise) ...... 18 Queen Creek MaIble Plant (Maricopa) ...... IS (602) 255-3795 BrownQuany (Navajo) ...... 17 Queen Creek MaIble Quany (Pinal) ...... IS Buckskin Quany (Navajo) ...... 17 Rainbow Schist Quarry (Yavapai) ...... 8 Toll-free in Arizona: 800-446-4259 Burro Creek Clay (Mohave) ...... 14 Rattlesnake Quarries (Coconino) ...... 8 Camp Grant Quarry (Pinal) ...... 10 Ray (pinal) ...... 7 Carlota (Gila) ...... 11 Red Mountain Quarry (Maricopa) ...... 17 Cheto No.1 (Apache) ...... 18 Red Rock Quany (Coconino) ...... 8 Cheto No.2 (Apache) ...... 13 Rillito Plant & Quarry (pima)...... 9 Clarkdale Quany & Plant (Yavapai) ...... 16 Rim Quarry (Navajo) ...... 11 Copper Hill Mine (Gila) ...... 14 Rock House Quarry (Coconino) ...... 13 Copper Queen (Cochise) ...... 16 Salome Gypsum (LaPaz) ...... 19 Crown Claims (Coconino) ...... 18 San Manuel (pinal) ...... 10 Cucamunga Quany (Coconino)...... 8 San Manuel Smelter (pinal) ...... 10 Board of Governors Darling Cinder Pit (Coconino) ...... 17 Santa Cruz (pinal) ...... 10 Davidson MaIble Quany (pima) ...... 13 Santa Rita Quarry (pima) ...... 17 William 1. Miller - Phoenix Devils Wash (pima) ...... 13 Seligman (Yavapai) ...... IS Dewey Ranch #2 (Yavapai) ...... 11 Shipley Pit (Mohave) ...... IS Chairman Douglas Quany & Plant (Cochise) ...... 11 Sidewinder Quarries (Coconino) ...... 8 Dunbar Stone Plant (Coconino) ...... 13 Sierra Quarry, SW Stone (Navajo) ...... 17 Feldman Quany (Pinal) ...... 15 Sierra Quarry, T&C Ent. (Navajo) ...... 18 Flagstone Quarries (Coconino) ...... 14 Sierrita (pima) ...... 12 Florence (pinal) ...... 11 Silver Bell (pima) ...... 9 Richard Oldham - Quartzsite Gold Hill (pinal) ...... 17 Sleeping Beauty (Gila) ...... 19 Ken Bennett Gold Road (Mohave) ...... 8 Snowflake Gypsum (Mohave) ...... 19 Vice Chainnan Member Golden Buckskin Quarry (Yavapai) ...... 8 Star Valley Granite Quany (Gila) ...... 17 Grace Chabazite Mine (Cochise) ...... 14 Superior Perlite (pinal) ...... 14 Hayden Concentrator and Smelter (Gila) ...... 9 Swansea (La Paz) ...... 18 Houck Silica Sand (Apache) ...... 9 Tohono (Pinal) ...... 13 Sydney RotTRay - Phoenix Eric A. Nordhausen - Tucson Iron Chancellor (Yavapai) ...... 8 Tolleson (Maricopa) ...... 12 Secretary Member Iron King Tailings and Plant (Yavapai) ...... 14 Treasure Chest Granite Quarry (Pinal) ...... 18 Johnson Camp (Cochise) ...... 8 Trick Tank Quany (Coconino) ...... 8 Jomax Quarry (Maricopa) ...... 14 Union Pass Mordenite (Mohave) ...... 18 Kayenta (Navajo) ...... 15 United Verde (Yavapai) ...... 16 Little Rock Quany (Yavapai)...... 8 Verde Gypsum (Yavapai) ...... 16 Lizard Canyon Quarry (Yavapai) ...... 8 Weary Lode Mine (Gila) ...... 14 Lyles (Yavapai) ...... 14 White CliffDiatornite (pinal) ...... 8 M C Canyon Quarries (Coconino) ...... 18 White Cross (pinal) ...... 17 M C Quarry (Coconino) ...... 13 White Vulcan (Coconino) ...... 18 Madison Granite (Maricopa) ...... 14 Wildcat Hill Pit, Flag. Cinder Sales (Coconino) .. 13 Mayer Onyx Quany (Yavapai) ...... 8 Wildcat Hill Pit, Coconino Cind. (Coconino) ... 12 Miami Mine, Cyprus (Gila) ...... 12 Winkelman Gypsum (Pinal) ...... 18 Miami Mine, BHP (Gila) ...... 11 Yarnell Mine (Yavapai) ...... 19 Cover: This smetter and adjacent mine, now known by another name, first started production in 1911. Since Mineral Parle, Equitorial (Mohave) ...... 13 Yellow Wasp No.2 (Coconino) ...... 8 that time it has become one of Arizona's premier mines, producing over 144 million pounds of copper in Mineral Parle, Colbaugh (Mohave) ...... 12 1996. (Answers on p. 25)

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 28 Where are you? COMMODITY INDEX

You may enjoy testing your mine identification skills on the photgraphs in this year's directory. Each of CEMENT/LIME Gold Road Mine SAND, INDUSTRIAL the photographs is of an Arizona mine with the Clatkdale Quany Mission Mine· Ajo Plant & Slag Stockpile caption supplying clues to its identification. Some of Douglas Quany Pinto Valley Mine· Houck Silica Sand Ray Mine· the mines are major, some minor, some old, some Nelson Quany SILICA SMELTER FLUX Rillito Quany Morenci Mine· new. All of the photographs are from the Depart­ San Manuel Mine· Camp Grant Quany ment archives. No one in our office got 100 percent. CINDERS Sierrita Mine· Copper Hill Mine Darling Cinder Pit YamellMine Gold Hill Mine Answers are on page 25. Wildcat Hill GRANITE/DECORATIVE STONE SILVER -see Gold CLAY Aztec Quarry SLATE Cheto No. 1 Mine JomaxQuarry New River Slate Quany Cheto No. 2 Mine Madison Granite Quany Burro Creek Clay Pit Picacho Quany SMELTERS Dewey Ranch Quany Red Mountain Quany Hayden Lyles Mine Star Valley Granite Quany Miami Pantano Clay Pits Treasure Chest Granite Quarry San Manuel RimQuany GYPSUM STONE, DIMENSION Tolleson Mine Arizona Picture Rock Quany Weary Lode Mine Feldman Quarry THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Salome Gypsum Mine Arizona Gold Quany COAL Snowflake Gypsum Mine Black Cat Quany Black Mesa Mine White Cross Mine Blue Bell Schist Quany The objective of the Department is to promote the development of Arizona' s mineral resources. This Kayenta Mine Winkelman Gypsum Brown QuaTI)' is accomplished through technical research, field investigations, compilation of information into a Verde Gypsum Mine Buckskin QuarT)' mineral occurrence data base, and disseminating information through publications, personal contacts, COPPER Cucamunga QUaTI)' and seminars. Bagdad Mine LIMESTONE/MARBLE Dunbar Quarries Carlota Andrada Marble Quany Flagstone Quarries The Department's mining engineers and geologists assist mining and exploration companies, pros­ Copper Queen Mine pectors and others interested in Arizona's minerals with mineral processing, mineral land acquiSItiOn, Davidson Mamie Quany Golden Buckskin Quany exploration, mine development, financing, government regulations, and rilarketing. Florence Queen Creek Marble Quarry Little Rock Quarry Johnson Camp Mine Santa Rita Quany Lizard Canyon Quany The Department is a service agency and does not regulate, tax, or require any type of registration. Miami Mine, Cyprus Shipley Pit MCQuarry The agency provides assistance that is tailored to meet the diverse needs of the public. The following Miami Mine, BPH M C Canyon Quany is a partial lIst of services that the Department offers: Mineral Park Mine MOLYBDENUM Bagdad Mine· Mayer Onyx Quany Mission Mine New River Slate Quany • Maintain a site specific data base of unpublished reports and maps that includes 4,000 mine fIles Morenci Mine Mission Mine and indexes of 10,000 computerized Arizona mineral occurrences. Morenci Mine· Rainbow Schist Quany Pinto Valley Mine Rattlesnake Quany Ray Mine Pinto Valley Mine· • Maintain an information bank and libnuy of mineral and mining information including a mine Red Rock Quany San Manuel Mine San Manuel Mine· map libnuy (hard copy and microfilm), government publications, periodicals, and unpublished Sierrita Mine· Rock House Quany master and doctorate theses. Sierrita Mine Sidewinder Quany Silver Bell Mine PERLITE Sierra Quany • Gather and disseminate information on cornmodities and markets. TohonoMine Superior Perlite Mine Trick Tank Quany CUSTOM MILLS PIGMENT • Suggest target areas for exploration activity. Western States Stone Quarries Black Canyon Mill Swansea Mine Yellow Wasp Quany Iron Chancellor Mine • Suggest properti~s for acquisition and development. DIATOMITE ZEOLITES White Cliff Mine PUMICE Bowie Chazazite Mine • Assist individuals and companies in their dealings with regulatory agencies to facilitate their Crown Claims Grace Chabazite Mine mining and exploration activity. FERllLlZER MINERALS Iron King Tailings and Plant More Sand, Moon Sand Claims Union Pass Mordenite Mine White Vulcan Mine • Produce publications in the form of mineral reports, annual directories, technical reports, annual GEMSTONES mineral mdusuy surveys and information CIrculars. These publications include: Laws and Sleeping Beauty Mine SALT Regulations Governing Mineral Rights in Arizona. Directory ofActive Mines inArizona. Manual Morton Salt Mine for Determination ofStatus and Ownership ofArizona Mineral and Water Rights. and others. Mineral Park Mine A listing of the Department publications is available upon request. Morenci Mine SAND & GRAVEL GOLD and SILVER See listing of sand and gravel pro­ • Produced as a byproduct • Operate the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum Bagdad Mine· ducers Devils Wash Placer

27 Arizona Directory of Active Mines SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION Active Mines in Arizona - 1998 Arizona State Agencies Industry Associations - - Arizona Geological Survey Arizona Mining Association by K.A. Phillips, N.J. Niemuth, and D.R. Bain 416 West Congress, Tucson, AZ 85701 2702 North 3rd Street, #2015, Phoenix, AZ Phone (520) 770-3500 85004 Phone (602) 266-4416, Fax (602) 266-4418 Arizona Mines and Mineral Resources President ...... Charles Shipley 1502 West Washington, Phoenix, AZ 85007 Administrative Assistant . . . June Castelhano Phone (602) 255-3791 Director of Education ...... Larry McBiles Department of Mines and Mineral Resources Land Department - Minerals Section AMIGOS (Arizona's Mining & Industry 1616 West Adams, Phoenix, AZ 85007 Gets Our Support) Phone (602) 542-4628 2927 North 2nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85012, Directory 46 P.O. Box 25187, Phoenix, AZ 85002 Mine Inspector Phone (602) 279-3199, Fax (602) 230-8413 State Capital, West Wing, Room 403, Phoenix, Executive Director . .. .. Sydney Hoff Hay AZ 85007 Phone (602) 542-5971 Arizona Rock Products Association Federal Agencies 1825 West Adams, AGe Building, Phoenix, AZ 85007 Bureau of Land Management Phone (602) 271-0346, Fax (602) 255-0363 Arizona State Office, 222 North Central, Phoe­ Executive Vice President . . Ken Quartermain nix, AZ 850004-2203 Phone (602) 417-9528 Deputy Director ...... Jim Norton

Forest Service Society For Mining, Metallurgy, and Arizona Zone Office - Minerals, 2324 East Exploration, Inc. - National Headquarters McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85006 P. O. Box 625002, Littleton, CO 80162-5002 Phone (602) 225-5262 Phone (303) 973-9550, Fax (303) 973-3845 Executive Director ...... Gary Howell Mine Safety and Health Administration Assoc. Exec. Dir. for Members . . Angie Giles (MSHA) Director of Publications . .. . Joe Zullo 63 East Main #303, Mesa, AZ 85201 Editor - Mining Engineering . . . Tim O'Neil Phone (602) 649-5452 Fax: (602) 649-5662 u.S. Geological Survey Additional copies of the Directory of Active Minerals Information, 520 N. Park Ave. Suite Mines in Arizona 1998 may be obtained for 355, Tucson, AZ 85719 $5.00 ($6.50 by mail). Circulars listing mining Phone (520) 670-5544 related Federal, Arizona, and County agencies Use Mines FaxBack (703) 648-4999 to ob­ as well as mine permitting information are tain mineral commodity data and state produc­ available. For more information or a publica­ tion reviews. Call from your fax machine and tion list contact the Department. follow instructions to receive publication cata­ logues or documents via fax. State of Arizona Jane Dee Hull, Governor

Phoenix, Arizona November, 1997

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 26 Portable crushing and screening plant - Operated on a Vice President ...... George Dillard Arizona Department of Mines & Mineral Resources seasonal basis. 1502 West Washington, Phoenix, Arizona 85007 Plant 41 - Maricopa Plant WILLCOX ROCK & SAND I~n." """-~7a" TnlLfroo in_~+~+o 1_~nn_AA~_A"';:O ~...aric~Ro2!! a'!d the Gi!2 Pi'.'er, Mariccp2 - Phc~e (602} 1401 E . M~lev . PO Bnx l~fi WiIlr.nx A7 R'\h44 _ Phnn.. \ ...,.,",,6.0/ ...... ,'\J "". """...., • ""'I II ""'''''' I" w ...... "'" • "-'''''''...., ~~..., ~'"""~ 220-5540 - Sand. gravel, rock products, ready mix concrete, (520) 384-21si -E~pl~y~s~'12 =-S~-gra~~': ~ck-prod: ABC, and asphaltic concrete. ucts, ABC, and ready mix concrete. Plant Superintendent ...... Jim Shields Owners ...... Keith, Robert, and William Gallagher Directory of Active Mines in Arizona Plant 47 - Coolidge Plant Highway 287 and Attaway Road, Coolidge, AZ - (520) YAVAPAI MATERIALS, INC. 220-5454 - Sand. gravel, rock products, ready mix concrete, 5899 Wilkinson Drive, P.O. Box 814, Prescott, AZ 86302 and ABC. - Phone (520) 445-7305 - Employees: 17 - Sand and gravel. 1998 Plant Superintendent ...... Don Wofford President/Owner ...... JohnPemberton Plant 48 - Sacaton Plant Table of Contents Highway 93, 1 mile north of Casa Blanca Road. Sacaton, AZ - (602) 262-1453 - Sand, gravel, rock products, ready Answers to WHERE ARE YOU? mix concrete, and ABC. Plant Superintendent ...... Tom Farr Cover: Inspiration Smelter, Gila County. The op­ Arizona's Mineral Industry ...... 1 Plant 49 - Casa Grande Plant eration is now called Cyprus Miami. This undated 2305 S. Rooftile Rd., Casa Grande, AZ 85222 - Phone (520) photo is of the converters. The Miami smelter 836- 8705 - Sand. gravel, rock products, ready mix concrete, Mineral Production Table ...... 1 processed 633,000 tons of copper concentrates in ABC, and asphaltic concrete. 1996. Plant Superintendent ...... Will Wadkins Company Listing . . . . 8 VALLEY CONCRETE & MATERIALS A. p. 4 Kitty Why Group, Pinal County. This 2500 W. Cement Plant Road, Clarkdale, AZ 86324, P.O. mine was staked under a variety of names includ­ Sand and Gravel Operations ...... 20 Box 634, Cottonwood, AZ 86326 - Phone (520) 634-4250 ing Herring Property, Herron Group, and Horace . - Employees: 45 - Sand. gravel, rock products, ready mix It was a producing gold mine that was abandoned concrete, ABC, and asphaltic concrete. because wagon train freight costs to the mill were Supplemental Information ...... 26 Plant Manager ...... David Heath so high - 3 dollars per ton

VALLEY ROCK & SAND CO. B. p. 7 Grey Horse, Pinal County. After Grey Commodity Index ...... 27 10700 E. IlVington Road, P.O. Box 18469, Tucson, AZ Horse was staked, and approximately 1000 feet of 85731 - Phone (520) 296-1733 - Employees: 3 - Sand, tunnels and 260 feet of shafts developed in 1919, Mine Index ...... 28 gravel, and rock products. the mine was left unworked until discovered by President ...... Martin McCann specimen collectors Andrew Clark and Gary Fleck. The spectacular vanadinite crystals they Forward W.A. MORRIS SAND, GRAVEL found astounded the mineral-collecting world. The & CONCRETE INC. Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum acquired enough US Highway 191 South, Safford, AZ 85546 - Phone (520) This directory was compiled in November, 1997 from field visits and information crystal-covered slabs from the Grey Horse to re­ 428-1371 - Employees: 40 - Sand, gravel, rock products, construct a pocket in their new Earth Science Cen­ received by the Department's technical staff. For the purpose of this directory, an active mine ABC, ready mix concrete, and asphaltic concrete. ter. is defined as a mine in continuous operation, either in production or under full-time development Owner...... Jack Gilbert for production. Custom milling operations that are active or available on a full-time basis are C. p. 10 Monument No.2, Apache County. Take WHEELER CONSTRUCTION INC. full credit is you knew this photo was on one of also included in the directory. 1310 N. 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008 - Phone (602) the vanadiniteluranium deposits in Apache 254-3179 - Employees: 25 - Sand, gravel, rock products, It is acknowledged that there are additional mines not listed that are in an exploration, County. The occurrence was discovered by Yazzie and ABC. Mesa in 1942. The deposit was leased to VCA un­ evaluation, or part-time development phase. There are others where production is on an Executive Vice President ...... Bob Jolmson der a royalty agreement and produced approxi­ AshforkPit intermittent basis that are not listed. The report is dependent on the cooperation of government mately 489 tons of ore between 1943 and 1946. agencies, private industry, and individuals who voluntarily provide information on their projects Located near Ashfork, AZ - Operated on an as needed ba­ sis. D. p. 17 New Cornelia, Pima County. Also sim­ and activities. Dixileta Pit ply known as 'Ajo,' the New Cornelia mine has " Located north of Phoenix - Captive production of rock The directory is arranged alphabetically by company name. Each listing includes been a producer of copper for over a century. Ear­ products for construction contractors and rock products corporate addresses, mine name and location, commodities, operation description, and key lier this year Phelps Dodge announced plans to re­ marketed by others. personnel. sume production after a 13-year closure. WICKENBURG CONCRETE & MATERIALS U.S. Hwy. 60,M.P. 117.5, P.O. Box 1450, Wickenburg, AZ E. p. 19 Monte Cristo, Yavapai County. Various 85358 - Phone (520) 684-3402 - Employees: 25 - Sand, factors have inhibited production at this property over the years, including flooding, poor manage- Do you need this Information In an ~vel, rock products, ready mix concrete, ABC, and asphal­ alternative format? Please call the tic concrete. . ment, bad roads, inadequate fmancing, and low sil­ I ver prices. Perhaps its best years are yet to come. II Department office at 255-3791. President ...... Edwin Dillard L--- __, ______~ ___=______.J 25 Arizona Directory of Active Mines rock products, and ready mix concrete. Plant 486 - Lake Havasu City Plant Operations Manager ...... Chris Fischer 1785 Kiowa Blvd. Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 - Office ARIZONA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY -1998 Plant 21, EI Mirage Phone (520) 855-7210, Fax (520) 855-0506 - Plant Phone 45+-5 -No-EI--Mtrage -Ro·arl, G!endcle, l'.z - P-hene·-(602) ~5 ·20-) ~{)4.~3117 - - - Aggrogate; · ~j--1T'.ix- :ocIlGrets, and·as-­ 935-7767 phaltic concrete. In 1996 Arizona again set an all-time record in copper production, producing 1. 3 million tons valued at over West Plant 62 and 72 Plant Foreman ...... Wallace Opie $2.9 billion. Arizona continues leading the nation in the production of copper as well as in total non-fuel 11701 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ 85037 - Phone (602) 877-2411 TUCSON ROCK AND SAND mineralproduction. The value ofall mineral output was $3.84 billion, a decrease from 1995 due to the decline North Plant 63 6601 N. Casa Grande Hwy., Tucson, AZ 85743, P.O. Box in copper prices in 1996. In addition to copper, Arizona also leads or is among the leaders in the production 36030, Tucson, AZ 85740-6030 - Phone (520) 744-3222, 21001 N 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85024 - Phone (602) ofgemstones, molybdenum, silver, perlite, and sand and gravel. Excluding sand andgravel operations, there 582-4436 Fax (520) 744-4394 - Employees 150 - Two operations in " Sun City Plant 67 and 77 the Tucson area - Sand, gravel. rock products, ready mix are 109 active mines in Arizona producing the above commodities plus additional metals and 18 varieties of 24004 N_ 107thAvenue, Sun City, AZ 85373 -Phone (602) concrete, ABC, and asphaltic concrete. industrial minerals. There are least 70 sand and gravel producers in the state. More than 18,000 people are President ...... Richard Hrubes 566-1851 directly employed by the mining industry. Mesa Plant 61 and 71 Sales Manager . _ ...... Ron Green Operations Manager ...... Mike Smith 1901 N. Alma School Road, Mesa, AZ 85201-Phone (602) COPPER result of improved efficiency and access to higher grade ore 898-8230 UNITED METRO MATERIALS, INC. following completion of a stripping program. Efficiency Tucson Division 701 North 44th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008, P.O. Box 52140, Arizona's copper producers partly offset the effect of was increased, in part, by adding 3 new 240-ton trucks and Aggregate Plant Phone (520) 790-8074 Phoenix, AZ 85072 - Phone (602) 220-5000 - Employees: falling copper prices in 1996 by producing 4 percent more a new 56-cubic yard shovel. Late in 1996 the mine began Flagstaff Division 825 - Sand, gravel, ready mix concrete, and asphalt material. 633 E. Brannen, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 - Phone (520) 774- copper than in 1995 - 1,356,000 tons with a value of $2.93 testing a prototype truck, the Haulpak 930E Komatsu with President ...... John Fowler 0304 billion Copper represents over 85 percent of Arizona's a capacity of 310 tons! Six smaller 170-ton trucks were Vice President Sales ...... Bill Heeter nonfuel mineral value. Production comes primarily from 4 freed for use at Silver Bell. SUPERIOR MATERIALS OF UNITED METRO Chief Engineer ...... Bill Peck major companies, but strong demand for copper is encour­ Ray is the second largest mine in Arizona. It consists of Director Safety & Labor Relations . . . . David Chavez Hayfield Draw & Cherry Pit, P.O. Box 786, Camp Verde, aging other companies to pursue exploration and develop­ an open-pit, dump and heap leach operations, a 40,000 Plant 1- Central Avenue Plant AZ 86322 - Phone (520) 567-2244 - Employees: 75 - Sand, ment in Arizona. The Western Economic Analysis Center 2800 S. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85066 - Phone (602) ton-per-year SX-EW plant at Ray, and 2 mills - a 28,000 gravel. rock, and ready mix. reports that Arizona's economy received more than $9.6 General Manager . . . . . · ...... Ed Davidson 243-7080 or (602) 220-5000 - Sand, gravel, rock products, billion and nearly 73,000 Arizona residents hadjobs in 1996 MINERAL PRODUCTION Maintenance SupelVisor . . Randy Austin ready mix concrete, ABC, and asphaltic concrete. as a result of the direct and indirect contributions of the IN ARIZONA - 1996 * Foreman ...... · ...... Jerry Piper Plant Superintendent ...... Randy Patheal Ready Mix Plant Foreman . · ...... Storm Phillips Plant 2 - Mesa Plant copper industJy. The outlook for copper appears good - 2830 North Beeline, Mesa, AZ 85256 - Phone (602) 990- world demand is up and prices have been fairly stable, COMMODITY QUANTITY VALUE SUPERSTITION CRUSIDNG LLC 0844 - Sand, gravel, rock products, ready mix concrete, averaging $1.11 per pound in the first 10 months of 1997. 1 2323 E. Hale, Mesa, AZ 85213 - Phone (602) 962-5326. ABC, and asphaltic concrete. Producers continue to invest in new mining and milling Clay (tons) 132000 $454,000 Owner ...... Johnny Weik Plant Superintendent ...... Farron Bentley equipment to lower costs, improve efficiency and increase Copper (tons) 1356000 2 930 000,000 OwnerlManager ...... Myron Jones Plant 6 - El Mirage Plant capacity. Gemstones 4010000 Employees: 45 - Provides contract crushing for sand and 8507 N. El Mirage Road, EI Mirage, AZ 85335 - Phone Gold (troy ounces) 1078002 418000002 gravel producers including: Calmat Companies, Rock (602) 935-2653 - Sand, gravel. rock products, ready mix Asarco Incorporated Sand & gravel(tons) Solid, Pulte Construction, etc. concrete, ABC, and asphaltic concrete - Inactive. Yuma Pit Plant 11 - 19th Avenue Plant Asarco's world-wide copper production surpassed 1 Construction 46200000 220000 000 Southwest intersection Avenue 3E and County 19 east of 3640 S. 19th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85009 - Phone (602) billion pounds in 1996, establishing the company as the Industrial 366000 3310000 Yuma, 2755 4th Avenue #938, Yuma, AZ 85364 - Phone 262-1391 - Sand, gravel, rock products, ready mix concrete, fourth largest copper producer in the world. Asarco's Ari­ Silver (troy ounce~ 7,720000 40900 000 (520) 341-9866 - Employees: 25 - Sand, gravel, rock prod­ ABC, and asphaltic concrete. zona operations consist of the open-pit mines of Ray and Stone-crushed(tons) 6170000 33600 000 ucts, and ABC. Aggregate also supplied to company's ready Plant Superintendent ...... Randy Patheal Silver Bell, an open-pit and underground operation at Mis­ Pigments (tons) 85 62000 mix concrete and asphaltic concrete plants at another Yuma Plant 12 - Glendale Plant sion, the Hayden copper smelter, and the Santa Cruz experi­ Coal (tons) 12236000 2920000003 location 11920 W. Glendale Road, Glendale, AZ 85307 - Phone mental copper mine. Other 4 274000 000 Plant Foreman ...... Conrad Mulhauser (602) 935-3562 - Sand, gravel. rock products, ready mix Asarco began mining the Silver Bell North deposit, part concrete, ABC, and asphaltic concrete. of the Silver Bell complex near Tucson, and dedicated the THE TANNER COMPANIES Plant Superintendent ...... Norris Fish TOTAL $4,486,877,000 mine and new processing facility on July 16, 1997_ The 2088 E. 20th Street, P.O. Box 1449, Yuma, AZ 85366 - Plant 33 - Flagstaff Plant • Source: US GeolOgIcal Survey, US Dept. of Energy, facility's new $70 million SX-EW plant was developed as Phone (520) 343-4100, Fax (520) 343-4190 - Employees 5200 E. Railroad Avenue, Flagstaff, AZ 86004 - Phone ADMMR 200. ajointventure with Mitsui & Co. U.S.A. and is expected to (520) 526-5250 - Plant site - Material shipped in from 11 Excludes bentonite clays whose value is includes with President ...... Gerald Janney various company pits, ready mix, asphaltic concrete. produce 18,000 tons of copper annually. Much of the oxide "other." Plant 180 - Yuma Plant Superintendent ore will come from the new pit, Silver Bell North. Rubbli­ 2/ ADMMR estimate using the 67,500 troy ounces 13 mileseastofYumaonS.R. [email protected]. 37.5-Phone(520) Northern Az. Area Manager ...... Marcene Gough zation and leaching of material in the El Tiro and Oxide pits reported by USGS with the addition of 40,300 troy ounces 343-4180 - Sand, gravel, and asphaltic concrete. Plant 35 - Hill Pit will also provide solution to the SX-EW plant Capital costs from a producer believed to be not included by the USGS. Plant Foreman ...... Dave Brooks Hwy. 89, 12 miles north of Flagstaff - Sand and gravel pit for the startup were kept down by the use of mining equip­ 3/ ADMMR estimate. Mohave Plant - Fort Mohave - Portable crushing and screening plant - Operated on a ment received from the Ray and Mission mines. 1101 Aztec Road, Fort Mohave, AZ 86427 - Phone (520) 4/ Cement, clays (bentonite), gypsum, lime, molybde­ seasonal basis. Copper production at Ray mine was up from 1995 to 330-3330 - Aggregate and ready mix concrete Plant 36 - McConnick Pit num, perlite, pumice, salt, dimension stone, and iron oxide 343 million pounds due to increased ore production as a Plant Foreman ...... Walt St Clair Highway 89 and Sunset Crater - Sand and gravel pit - pigment.

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 24 1 Arizona Directory of Active Mines ton-per-day concentrator at Hayden and a 32,000 ton-per­ tor, in-situ leach, a 59,000 ton-per-year SX-EW plant, a gravel. Phone (520) 333-4483 - Fax (520) 333-5155 - Employees: day concentIator at Ray. At the end of 1996 Ray had 1,300,000 ton-per-year smelter with a 3,000 ton-per-day Owner/Operator ...... Cliff Freeman 2 - Sand and gravel. Owner ...... Sonny Hale reoop;ss-Gf !-bmion-!J.W~ 0.6 lIciJi phmt and a 345,000 ton-per~year electrolytic refmery, gr>..ding perce!ll copper. . pADILLA SANlJ, GRAV1:L, & REDI MLX and a 180,000 ton-per-year rod plant. San Manuel produced Sales Manager ...... Lori Hale Mission copper production increased 16 percent in 409 Camino Rarnanote, Rio Rico, AZ 85648 - Phone (520) 1996. Ore production was higher and average ore grade 107,000 tons of copper in the fiscal year that ended May 1, 761-4998 - Employees: 10 - Sand, gravel, and ready mix SALT RIVER SAND & ROCK increased as the underground mine came on line supplying 1997. BHP's San Manuel smelter accounts for about 25 concrete. Dobson Road and McKellips Road, P.O. Box 728, Mesa, higher grade ores. Production totaled 261 million pounds of percent of U .S. copper smelting capacity. The Outokurnpu Owner...... Manuel Padilla AZ 85211- Phone (602) 990-1987 -Employees: 300 - Sand copper and 800,000 pounds of molybdenwn. Accounting flash smelting furnace is the largest single furnace smelter and gravel - Second largest sand and gravel mine in the for 25 percent of Arizona's silver production, Mission was in the industry. PAULDEN SAND, ROCK, & REDIMIX United States. Division of Dunbar Stone Co., Inc. Arizona's largest silver producer with l.96 million ounces Owner .. . Maricopa-Pima Salt River Indian Nations P.O. Box 403, Paulden, AZ 86334 - Phone (520) 636-2500 recovered as a by-product. The Mission complex consists Manager ...... Wayne Hills - Employees - 11 - Sand, gravel, and ready mix concrete. Sales Manager ...... Denny Willcox of the underground mine and 2 pits, Mission and the 1996 Copper Mine Production Vice President ...... Warren Dunbar smaller, but separate, San Xavier North. Sulfide ore is Office Manager/Sales & Orders ...... Robin Larson SAND SPECIALTIES, INC. treated at 2 mills, Mission and South. They have the capac­ Mine/Company Production (lbs) 5570 N. Bush Highway, Mesa, AZ 85205 - Phone (602) ity to process 63,000 tons of ore daily, resulting in an annual PAYSON CONCRETE & MATERIALS, INC. 832-2120 - Employees: 4 - Aggregate products. MorencilPhelps Dodge 1,019,200,000 capacity of 124,000 tons of copper in concentrates. 1900 E. Hwy. 260, Payson, AZ 85541 - Phone (520) 474- Manager...... Ernest Perkins Ray / Asarco Inc. 343,400,000 Development drilling increased copper ore reserves by 2231 - Employees: 40 - Aggregate, sand, gravel, rock prod­ 261,200,000 ucts, ready mix concrete, and asphaltic concrete. 7 percent to 535 million tons containing 7.4 billion pounds Mission!Asarco Inc. SAN XAVIER ROCK & MATERIALS Plant Manager ...... George Randall 3895 N. Business Center Dr., Suite 11, Tucson, AZ 85705, of copper. This drilling also identified long-term stripping Sierrita/Cyprus 231,000,000 San Manuel/BHP* 214,000,000 Plant Manager ...... John Chillson P.O. Box 551, Cortaro, AZ 85652 - Phone (520) 293-6833 requirements that led Asarco to install a conveyor system Asphalt Plant Manager . . . Fred Randall - Employees: 180 - Sand, gravel, ABC, ready mix concrete, Bagdad/Cyprus Copper Co. 222,000,000 to move 58 million tons of waste a year and purchase 2 new Sales Representative . . . . Tim Hughes and asphaltic concrete. 60 cubic-yard shovels. This allowed three 15 cubic-yard Pinto Valley/BHP Copper* 174,000,000 Vice President and Division Manager . . . . AI Wilcox shovels to be moved to Silver Bell. Miami/Cyprus Copper Co. 144,000,000 PHOENIX REDIMIX COMPANY V.P. Sales & Marketing ...... Benny Bingham Continuous availability of the Hayden smelter, which 3635 S. 43rd Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85009 - Phone (602) Nogales Plant consists of an INCO flash furnace rated at 720,000 tons of 272-2637 - Employees: 200 - Operates 2 quarries - Sand, 91 Old Ruby Road, Nogales, AZ 85621 - Phone (520) charge per year, allowed uninterrupted production through­ *Period: June 1,1996 -May 31,1997 gravel, and ready mix concrete. 281-9669 - Sand, gravel, ABC, and ready mix concrete. President ...... Thomas M. Valente out 1996, resulting in a record copper production of 429.8 Plant Superintendent ...... Dave Sunderman Vice President . . . Timothy Valente million pounds. Tucson Plants The Lower Kalamazoo orebody has estimated ore re­ Marketing Director . · .. AIlanLadd President Clinton used his line item veto in October, 6200 W. Cortaro Farms Road, Tucson, AZ 85743 and 10011 serves of 2.1 billion pounds of contained copper that will Plant Manager . . . · .. Bob Strom E. Valencia Road, Tucson, AZ 85747 - Southwest of Tucson 1997 to withdraw federal funding for the experimental add 12 years to the San Manuel underground mine. Produc­ Controller...... · Toby Ballintine International Airport - Sand, gravel, ABC, ready mix con­ in-situ leach research project at Santa Cruz. Asarco, along tion commenced in January, 1997 and is being phased in crete, and asphaltic concrete. PIONEER SAND COMPANY with joint venture partner Freeport McMoran Copper and Plant Superintendent ...... Bill Wion with the depletion of the San Manuel orebody over the next 745 N. Gilbert #124-360, Gilbert, AZ 85234 - Phone (602) Gold, have decided to continue the project. In 1997 copper Green Valley Plant few years. San Manuel's and Lower Kalamazoo's estimated 926-8200 - Employees: 125. solutions were recovered by the test well field from the 24560 S. Old Nogales Highway, Green Valley, AZ 85614 proven and probable ore reserves are 222 million tons of Pioneer Sand #7 undistwbed copper deposit, and copper was produced in the - Phone (520) 625-5889. sulfide ore at an estimated grade of 0.62 percent copper, and 5901 W. Broadway Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85043 - Phone (602) pilot SX-EW recovery plant It is still too early to predict if Catalina Plant 288 million tons of oxide ore at an average grade of 0.41 233-2971- Sand, natural river rock, crushed rock, and ABC. this project's technology will be economic. It has the poten­ North of Catalina at Golder Dam - Phone (520) 825-8334. percent acid-soluble copper. Owner ...... Gary Schnurr tial for extracting copper from deep deposits with very little The Pinto Valley division includes the Pinto Valley Superintendent ...... Dave Sawyers SCARBOROUGH SAND & GRAVEL surface disturbance or other impact on the environment mine and the Miami in-situ and Miami No. 2 tailings leach Office Manager ...... Tammie MixDorf 920 StIatton Dr., Safford, AZ 85546 - Phone (520) 428- operations. The Pinto Valley mine consists of an open-pit Florence Pit 3138 - Employees: 5 - Sand, gravel, and rock products. BHP Copper 19925 East Price Road, Florence, AZ 85232 - Phone (520) mine, a 63,000-ton-per-day concentIator, dump leach, and OwnerlManager...... Winfred Scarborough 868-4616 - Natural river rock and sand. Magma Copper was acquired by Broken Hill Proprie­ 8,000 ton-per-year SX-EW plant. Miami's leach operations tary Company Ltd. (BHP) of Australia effective January, Casa Grande Quarry SMITH AND BELL CONSTRUCTION recover copper from in-situ leaching of the old Miami mine Grande Rose decorative landscape rock and boulders. Smith, Bell, and Findley Concrete and Materials 1996. The merger made the BHP Copper the second largest block cave area and by hydraulic mining and leaching of the copper producer in the world with 9 percent of mine pro­ Pioneer Pit #10 1711 N. 8th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546 - Phone (520) Miami No. 2 Tailings pile. The resulting pregnant leach 335th Avenue and Indian School Road, Tonopah - Phone 428-4747 -Employees: 14 - Sand, graveL ABC, rock prod­ duction San Manuel and Pinto Valley are the company's 2 solutions are processed through Miami's 10,000 ton-per­ (602) 489-0767 - Produces natural rock, and plaster, mortar, ucts, and ready mix concrete. active mining divisions in Arizona. BHP is also developing year SX-EW plant. Pinto Valley's estimated recoverable and golf course sand. Owner ...... Rick Findley the Poston Butte deposit, an in-situ leach property that, proved and probable ore reserves are 572 million tons of when fully operational, will be the world's first stand-alone sulfide ore at an average grade of 0.18 percent copper. The REIDHEAD SAND & ROCK, INC. SUN STATE ROCK & MATERIAL CORP. P.O. Box 7, Paper Mill Rd. , Taylor, AZ 85939 - Phone (520) P.O. Box 1340, Sun City, AZ 85372 -Phone (602) 566-3000 in-situ copper mine. BHP's Magma mine at Superior closed Miami in-situ project contains an additional 156 million 536-4519 - Employees - 35 - Sand, gravel, and ready mix - Employees: 40 - Sand, gravel, ABC, and rock products. in June of 1996. tons at an average grade of 0.41 percent copper, while 10 San Manuel is the largest underground operation in the concrete. Owner ...... Dolores Walker million tons at 0.39 percent remain to be processed at the Manager ...... Jack Zellner United States and one of the largest underground copper No . 2 Tailings pile. SUNWARD MATERIALS mines in the world. San Manuel consists of a block-caving BHP's Florence in-situ leach project has completed RUE HALE SAND AND ROCK Executive Office, 2625 S. 19th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85009- underground copper mine, a 62,000 ton-per-day concentra- permitting and is scheduled to begin production in early 611 S. Voight St, P.O. Box 221, Springerville, AZ 85938- Phone (602) 416-2600 - Employees: 300 - Sand, gravel,

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 2 23 Arizona Directory of Active Mines GRANITE CONSTRUCTION CO. President ..... · ...... John Kocjan 1998. The operation is expected to produce 35,000 tons of new record for Miami. The Miami rod plant produced 276 4115 E. Illinois, P.O. Box 27557, Tucson, AZ 85726 - Vice President . . . · ...... Gerald Kocjan cathode copper per year for 15 years. The project is in a million pounds of copper rod. Phone (520) 748-8000 - Employees: 298 - Sand, gravel, Secretary . .... · ...... Ted Kocjan testing phase that includes a pilot in-situ leach and SX-EW Cyprus' Tohono operations, located on land leased from l'Vad ....storirJa-;3vil; ~~Y-ll'.ix oor.c:-;;t~.. ruul ~}-~k:·os~­ piaht. 'Oxide resources tofthe" proJect are 321 nUllio'n ions the'tohono O'Odham Nation, consists of an SX-EW plant LINDEN PEARCE CONSTRUCTION, INC. crete. averaging 0.34 percent copper. fed by a newly developed test open pit and heap leach. In 1020 Pearce Road, Show Low, AZ 85901 - Phone (520) Branch Manager ...... Ted Haworth 1996 Tohono produced 39 million pounds of copper. Office Manager. . . . '...... Maura Noland 537-7454 -Employees: 28 -Rock, sand, cinders, ready mix Cyprus Climax Metals Company concrete, and asphaltic concrete. Phelps Dodge Corporation GRANITE MOUNTAIN MATERIALS OwnerlPresident ...... Joy T. Pearce, Jr. In 1996 the Cyprus Climax Metals division of Cyprus 560 EZ Street, P.O. Box 3520, Prescott, AZ 86302 - Phone Owner ...... Lavar Merrill Amax produced 768 million pounds of copper and 56 Phelps Dodge's Morenci mine in Greenlee County, the (520) 778-5553 - Employees: 6 - Crushed granite. Secretary ...... Kim Pearce million pounds of molybdenum, with much of the produc­ largest copper mine in North America, produced over 1 Owner ...... DOIvin Jones tion coming from their Arizona operations. Cyprus is Ari­ billion pounds of copper in 1996. Phelps Dodge Corpora­ MADDUX & SONS, INC. zona's second largest producer of copper and the world's tion, headquartered in Phoenix, is the world's largest pro­ 1927 Pan American, P.O. Box 1077, Douglas, AZ 85608- GUZMAN CONSTRUCTION largest producer of molybdenum. Cyprus Climax maintains ducer of SX-EW cathode copper. Its mining division, Bixby Road, P.O. Box 3100, Globe, AZ 85502 - Phone Phone (520) 364-7564 -Employees: 40 - Sand, gravel, ready (520) 425-5775 - Employees: 60 - Sand, gravel, rock, road mix, and rock products. headquarters in Tempe, Arizona and operates 4 copper Phelps Dodge Mining Company, produces about one-third materials, ready mix concrete, and asphaltic concrete. President ...... Leonard Maddux mines in the State: Bagdad, Tohono, Miami, and Sierrita. In of the U.S.'s mined copper at its properties in southeastern President ...... Mike Guzman Jr. Office Manager ...... Toni Vance October of 1997 Cyprus sold their Mineral Park property to Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. In Arizona, in Vice President ...... Wes Bryant Sales and Orders ...... Roxy Maddux Equitorial Mining N.L. of Australia addition to Morenci, Phelps Dodge operates the Copper Superintendent ...... Bruce Herman The Sierrita property consists of 3 open-pit copper-mo­ Queen in Bisbee, and controls significant undeveloped cop­ MCCORMICK CONSTRUCTION lybdenum mines, a 115,000 ton-per-day concentrator, 2 per resources throughout the state, including the New Cor­ HAMILTON SAND & GRAVEL 1941 Richardo Ave., P.O. Box 545, Bullhead City, AZ molybdenum roasting plants, a ferro molybdenum plant, a nelia mine at Ajo and several deposits near Safford. Phelps 86430 - Phone (520) 763-2272 - Employees: 19 - Sand, Hamilton Rd., RR 1 Box 1350, Willcox, AZ 85643 - Phone rhenium plant, a dump leaching operation, and an SX-EW Dodge owns an 85 percent interest in the Morenci mine; the (520) 384-2582 - Employees: 4 - Sand, gravel, and rock. gravel, rock products, and asphaltic concrete. plant. In 1996 Sierrita started mining a 70-million-ton oxide Owner...... David May President ...... Scott Merrill remaining 15 percent is owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining Office Manager ...... Sharon Hartman deposit that has led to an increase in cathode output Con­ Company, Ltd. HATCH CONSTRUCTION & PAVING struction has began on a new in-pit crusher and conveyor Morenci alone produces 23.6 percent of the U.S. copper Hwy. 77, Taylor, AZ 85939 - Phone (520) 536-7213 - MESA MATERIALS, INC. system to reduce haulage costs. Sierrita is recognized as one production and 5.1 percent of the world production. The Employees: 40 - Sand, gravel, road materials, and ready mix 3410 N. Higley Road, P.O. Box 20040, Mesa, AZ 85277 - of the most efficient mines in the world as it operates with Morenci operation consists of the Morenci, Metcalf, and concrete. Phone (602) 830-1521-Fax(602) 981-9255 Employees: 50 the lowest average copper grade, 0.27 percent, of any mill­ Northwest Extension open-pit copper mines, the 100,000 President ...... Jerrold L. Hatch - Operates multiple quarries - Sand. gravel, and asphaltic ing operation. A major contributing factor is the mine's ton-per-day Morenci concentrator with a molybdenum cir­ Secretaryffreasurer...... Lynn R. Hatch concrete. by-product molybdenum credit of 19 million pounds, val­ cuit, the 40,000 ton-per-day Metcalf concentrator, 4 dump Owner ...... Edward C. Levy Vice President ...... Lenn B. Hatch ued at $100 million in 1996. This figure is down from the leaches with 3 SX plants, the new Southside EW plant with Vice President. . . Wayne Stamper HUACHUCA CONCRETE, INC. Office Manager . . . Bruce Erickson record 24 million pounds in 1995, but still substantial. a 130-million-pound capacity, and Morenci, with a capacity 423 S. Scrader Rd., Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 - Phone (520) Accounts Payable...... Belinda Beck Sierrita is the largest molybdenum mine in Arizona Sierrita of 370 million pounds annually, the worlds largest EW 456-1600 - Employees: 15 - Sand, gravel, aggregate prod­ Operations Manager, East Side . . . . Dave Schemer contains proven and probable copper reserves to last 20 plant. ucts, ABC, leach rock, and rip rap. Operations Manager, West Side. . . .. Ron Ernst years at its present mining rate of almost 50 million tons per On May 27, 1996 a world record was set at Morenci General Manager ...... Mike Berry Receptionist ...... Tess Sanderlin year. when 1,327,800 tons of material was mined in a 24-hour Safety Manager ...... Frank Vallie The Bagdad mine in Yavapai County produced 222 period. Also in 1996, the landmark smelter stacks that were J.D.'S SAND & GRAVEL INC. 1512 W. Frontage Rd., P.O. Box 4435, Rio Rico, AZ million pounds of copper in 1996. A higher capacity shovel built in 1942 were downed as part of the demolition of the METRO MATERIALS CO. was added to lower mining costs, and mill output was remainder of the smelter. 85648-4435 -Phone (520) 281-7980 -Employees: 6 -ABC, 5231 E. Buffalo Soldier Road, P.O. Box 520, Sierra Vista, flll, and aggregate. AZ 85636 - Phone (520) 378-2321 - Employees: 55 - Sand, expanded by 5 percent Sulfide production was 10 percent Morenci's milling and leaching reserves totaled over 1.7 President ...... Michael Williams gravel, and ready mix concrete. higher than in 1995. The operation consists of an open-pit billion tons at the end of 1996. Additional resources include: General Manager ...... Tim Dillahunt copper-molybdenum mine, a 85,000 ton-per-day concentra­ Coronado with 480 million tons of sulfide and oxide min­ JIM BUSH SAND & GRAVEL tor, a dump leach operation, and an SX-EW plant Cyprus eralization, Western Copper with an estimated 530 mil­ 1015 N. Cameron, Ajo, AZ 85321-Phone (520) 387-6250 MOHAVE CONCRETE & MATERIALS INC. reports that Bagdad has over a billion ton proven and lion tons of milling material at a grade of 0.55 percent - Employees: 4 - Sand, gravel, and landscaping material. 4502 N. Hwy. 95, Lake Havasu City, AZ 86404 - Phone probable ore reserve of' 0.38 percent copper and 0.021 copper, and 500 million tons ofleach material at a grade of President ...... Patti Bush (520) 764-2226 - Employees: 30 - Sand, gravel, rock prod­ percent molybdenum. 0.31 percent copper, and Garfield, containing 1 billion tons Vice President ...... David Bush ucts, and ready mix concrete. The Miami mine consists of an open-pit copper mine, grading 0.27 percent copper. General Manager ...... Dan Porter an SX-EW plant, a 650,000 ton-per-year capacity smelter, The company's Copper Queen mine consists of a small KINGMAN REDIMIX Mohave Concrete S&G No.1 9985 Shipping Lane, Kingman, AZ 86401 - Phone (520) Mohave Concrete S&G No.2 an acid plant, a 380 million-pound-annual capacity electro­ dump leaching and precipitation operation at the depleted 757-7446 - Employees: 12 - Sand, gravel, and ready mix 1781 E. Boundary Cone Road, Mohave Valley, AZ - Phone lytic refinery, and a 135,000 ton-per-year rod plant. The Lavender pit. No decision has been made as to when to bring concrete. (520) 330-3750. mine and SX-EW plant produced 144 million pounds of the adjacent Cochise deposit, containing 210 million tons President ...... Pete Campbell Mohave Concrete S&G No.3 copper in 1996. The investments in the smelter and refinery ofOA percent leach material, to production. KOCJAN ASSOCIATES, INC. 2699 West Hwy. 66, Kingman, AZ - Phone (520 753-5554. at Miami have made Cyprus more efficient and self suffi­ Phelps Dodge opened a district office in Safford where 2030 E. Frontage Rd. P.O. Box 3748, Page, AZ 86040 - cient in domestic copper smelting and refming. The smelter feasibility studies and environmental permitting were initi­ NEW RIVER SAND & GRAVEL processed 633,000 tons of copper concentrates in 1996, a ated in 1996 for the Lone Star, Dos Pobres, and San Juan Phone (520) 645-3602 - Employees: 10 - Sand, gravel, 58202 N. 51st Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85027 - Phone (602) deposits. The Dos Pobres and San Juan deposits contain 555 ABC, ready mix concrete, and asphaltic concrete. 465-7845 and (602) 465-7850 - Employees: 1 - Sand and

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 22 3 Arizona Directory of Active Mines million tons of leachable material and 330 million tons of encompasses joint venture property with BlIP and Phelps Apex Plant 2213 - Employees: 45 - Paving materials, ready mix con­ sulfide with a grade of 0.65 percent copper. In late 1995, the Dodge, as well as AMT-staked federal mining claims. 11500 N. Ca1Mat Drive, Marana. AZ 85653 - Phone (520) crete, and rock products. Sanchez deposit was acquired from AZCO Mining. The 6~9-O460 - Sand, gravel, rock products, ABC, and ready President ...... Torn Short l;t\lx.cQnrr e!e ...... - ...... _. _ ..... __ ..... _ ...... act{llisiticiti increSuperstition Mountains. 4490 E. Hwy. 66, Kingman, AZ 86401 - Phone (520) 757-

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 4 21 Arizona Directory of Active Mines High-quality coal is strip mined from the Kayenta and mental Assessment with the Bureau of Land Management SAND AND GRAVEL OPERATIONS Black Mesa mines in central Navajo County. The coal is and received their Aquifer Protection Permit from the Ari­ subbituminous with an average quality of 11 ,000 Btu, 0.5 zona Department of Environmental Quality, but unfortu­ pement- sulfur;· am! . !O-F!r.e!1t.. ru;h. .. Both.mines-a.re- row nately - ba.~ not _~t ..assemhled.the_fin:m c;:ing. t.() put their A &A MATERIALS President ...... Roland C. Brown using 300-ton capacity tractor trailer bottom..

Arizona Directory of Active Mines 20 5 Arizona Directory of Active Mines landscaping, and road deicing. Slag from a copper smelter gas desulfurization plant. When full capacity is reached, wall board industries, agriculture, fertilizer industry, func­ is processed for roofmg granules and abrasives. Pumice is approximately 180,000 tons of limestone will be received tional fillers, and water treatment. used for fabric treatment and light-weight aggregate. Stone armually from the Nevada mine 250 miles away via Utah. is ~d-a..'ld .cru.shed..for-.a.g~!es.aM la.rv1..sc.ap.ing. It. is. belie¥e.d Ll1at ArizOlla.SOQI:Ges-w-Cm-1.LTlI::cQnmnlc.aLdue ...... -····· W·ESTERN·ORGANICS INC. Decomposed granite is used for landscaping. Gypsum is to restrictive highway transport regulations in Arizona. The 420 East Southern, Tempe, AZ 85282, P.O. Box 25406, mined and processed for wall board manufacture, cement process of flue gas desulfurization using limestone at the Tempe, AZ 85285-5406 - Phone (602) 966-4442 - Plant manufacture, and agriculture. Hematite is mined for color SRP plant produces gypsum as a waste product Studies are located at 27th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road in Phoe­ and bamer pigments. Sandstone is quamed Md worked for underway to find uses for the gypsum in the area of southern nix - Phone (602) 269-5756, Fax (602) 269-7621- Employ­ flagstone. Schist, limestone, marble, rhyolite, gneiss, and Nevada Markets for gypsum in that market area would ees: 100. granite are quarried for decorative stone. make use of the empty limestone trucks on their return trip President ...... James Porter Acquisitions, mergers, and dissolutions have changed and may impact gypsum production from northwestern Vice President/Operations Manager . .... D. C. Porter the corporate structure of Arizona's industrial mineral min­ Arizona. Sales Manager . . . Dennis Reynolds ing industry. The Department of Mines and Mineral Resources has Office Manager ...... Adrian Cluff Omya (pluess Staufer) of Lucem Valley, California noted recent interest in deposits of numerous industrial Controller...... David Hancock acquired the Queen Creek Limestone deposit. The deposit mineral commodities. These include perlite, clays, barite, Salome Gypsum Mine T5N Rl1 W Sec. 30 supplies mine-run white mruble to the Mineral Develop­ industrial sand, dolomite, mica, limestone, manganese, ver­ Open-pit gypsum mine operated by contractors - Gypsum ment Inc. Superior Marble crushing and screening plant in miculite, and specialty aggregates. A robust economy with for agricultural and horticultural uses, bagged and bulk - Queen Creek. Omya has armounced plans to construct a an attendant high level of new residential, commercial, Used directly and in blends. maIble grinding mill plant near Superior in Pinal County. institutional, and industrial construction has spurred interest Minerals Development, in agreement with Omya, will con­ in developing additional sources of sand and gravel for WESTERN STATES STONE COMPANY tinue to supply the market with crushed and screened marble construction aggregate. Ashfork Plant T21N R2W Sec. 3 products of a particle size greater than 200 mesh. Quarries Georgia Marble acquired the Pima Operations of Spe­ GEMSTONES P.O. Box316 -Ash Fork, AZ86320 -Phone (520)637-2542 cialty Minerals at their Santa Rita Quarry in Pima County - Employees: 40 - Quarries located in Coconino, La Paz, Arizona is a leading state in the value of mined gem­ under a long-term lease and armounced plans to concentrate Maricopa, Mohave, and Yavapai counties - Stone process­ stones in the United States. Approximately $4 million worth their Arizona operations at the newly leased location ing facility in Ashfork - Commercial and decorative build­ of commercial gemstone production is reported for Arizona Superior Companies has sold their mineral resource ing stone. armually. Turquoise, peridot, and petrified wood account assets and closed their business. Their Camp Verde Gyp­ Superintendent-Sales . . Shirley Robertson for most of the value, with amethyst, chrysocolla, azurite, sum mine was sold to Phoenix Cement Company. Their Superintendent- Mining . . . Howard Gray malachite, and fu-e agate making up the remainder. Verde Valley Sand, Gravel, and Redi Mix operation, Turquoise, a hydrous phosphate of aluminum and cop­ Winkleman Gypsum, and the idle St. Johns Limestone mine YARNELL MINING COMPANY, INC. per, is the leading gemstone produced in Arizona. Prized for were purchased by United Metro. Camp Verde Gypsum P.O. Box 1182, Yarnell, AZ 85362 - Phone (520) 427-3353 its color, turquoise is the traditional gemstone used in supplies gypsum to the Phoenix Cement Company plant at - Employees: 4 - Open pit, heap leach, gold mine - Draft Southwestern Native American jewelry. It is mined as a Clarkdale and to agricultural customers. The Winkleman Environmental Impact Statement expected to be released by by -product by contractors at a number of Arizona porphyry Gypsum operation supplies gypsum to the Arizona Portland BLM for comment in December, 1997 - Construction may copper deposits. The best quality material is sold by the Cement plant at Rillito and to agricultural customers. The begin in late 1998 contingent upon receiving Record of piece, and the remainder sold or processed for sale by St. Johns Limestone mine supplied limestone for flue gas Decision, and other permits. E. This high grade silver mine in Yavapai County was weight. By-product turquoise is produced by Yellow Hair desulfurization at Salt River Project's Coronado Power Yarnell Mine TlON R5W Sec. 14 discovered before the turn ofthe century. This photo, talren Trading and Mining from the Sleeping Beauty Mine at Pinto Plant near St Johns. Project Manager . . Mark Montoya in 1917, may include Ezra Thayer who held the mine for Valley and by Colbaugh Processing from the Mineral Park Pioneer Concrete of America, through its Pioneer Con­ Operations Manager David LeFevre many years. The headframe and outbUildings were burned Mine. Although long known for their turquoise, the crete of Arizona subsidiary, acquired Cashway Concrete Project Engineer . . .. Bob Taylor by vandals in 1970. Morenci Mine and the deposits at Bisbee are currently and Materials in Phoenix. Cashway operates 4 concrete yielding very little. plants, 2 sand and gravel plants, and 85 trucks as Action YELLOW HAIR TRADING AND MINING Peridot ranks second in gemstone value in Arizona. It is Cashway. Employment at Action Cashway increased by P.O. Box 111, Globe, AZ 85502 - Phone (520) 425-7625 or the gem variety of the mineral olivine. The translucent green 176 to 276 employees. Pioneer of Australia is the parent of 425-0446, Fax (520) 425-0638 - Employees: 45. material comes from the Peridot Mesa area of the San Carlos Pioneer Concrete and is reported to be the second largest President ...... Monty Nichols Apache Reservation east of Globe. Arizona material is sand and gravel producer in the world. Sales ...... Dan Courvoisier suitable for faceting and is the fmest quality in the world. Owens Coming Fiberglass has acquired WestemFiber­ Sleeping Beauty Mine TIN R14E Sec. 12 This deposit accounts for approximately 90% of the world's glass including their Eloy, Arizona fiberglass factory. The Produces turquoise under contract with BHP Copper - Sorts, production plant, which has historically used raw mineral materials grades, and processes turquoise for worldwide distribution Petrified wood, although occurring in nearly every state, imported into Arizona from other states, has expressed an is best known as an Arizona gem material. Petrified wood interest in obtaining sources of supply within Arizona. is a fossil in which a mineral material, usually silica, has The Salt River Project (SRP) Navajo Power Plant at replaced the original cellular structure of the wood Petrified Page, Arizona began receiving limestone from Chemical wood occurs in all Arizona counties, but that occurring in Lime at a Nevada source for their newly constructed flue Navajo and Apache counties in the Triassic Chinle Forma- Arizona Directory of Active Mines Arizona Directory of Active Mines 6 19 Co-owner ...... Peter Challinor Bowie Chabazite TllS R28E & T11S R29E tion supplies nearly all of the gem market. Conunercial Another important segment of recreational mining in Swansea Mine TlON R15W Sec. 32 Open pit zeolite mines operated by contract mining com­ production comes only from private lands. Arizona includes gold-panners and operators of small hobby-type suction dredges. Although gold is likely recov­ Produces hematite, micaceous-iron-oxide variety - Used pany - Chabazite used for specialty adsoIbants - Shipped out RECREA110NAL MINING for pigment and anti

Arizona Directory of Active Mines Arizona Directory of Active Mines 18 7 COMPANY LISTING

The following list is arranged alphabetically by company. To locate a specific mine use the index on page 28.

AiJiJw.r..5T Iviii~ERALS INC locared near Mayer - unyx marble quany - Schist quames D. This photograph is ofthe P.O. Box 869, Oatman, AZ 86433 - Phone (520) 768-1600 - Landscape boulders, building and dimension stone. first blast at this famous - Employees: 120. President ...... Perry Halquist Arizona mine, perhaps the General Manager ...... · . Kevin Shiell Manager...... Wayne Evans oldest mine in Arizona. It Mine Superintendent ...... · . .. Ben File Mayer Onyx Quarry Tl2N RlE Sec. 22 was mined by early Indians Mill Superintendent ...... · .. Terry Rice Blue Bell Schist Quarry Tll.5N RIE Sec. 24 and Mexicans, and, by Gold Road TI9N R20W Sec. 11 Rainbow Schist Quarry Tl2N RIE Sec. 23 1854, by Anglos hoping the Located at Oatman - Underground gold mine - 500 TPD CIP area would be included in mill. ARIMETCO INTERNATIONAL INC. the Gadsden Purchase. Arimetco Inc. AMERICAN SANDSTONE 335 N. Wilmot Rd, Suite 400, Tucson, AZ 85711 - Phone Blaser Corporation (520) 748- 2600, Fax (520) 748-2494. 2600 N. Highway 89, P.O. Box 1154, Chino Valley, AZ President, Chairman. CEO ...... H. Roy Shipes 86323 - Phone (520) 636-4454, Fax (520) 636-2780 - Em­ Senior Vice President Corporate Secretary ployees: 50 - Quarries and processes Arizona flagstone into and Chief Financial Officer . . . . . John McKinney flagging, dimension stone and tiles. Controller ...... Andrew Keating President ...... Donald Blaser Chief Geologist ...... Harrison Matson Vice President ...... W. Larry Blaser Johnson Camp TI5S R22E Sec. 26 Sec./freas. & Mgr. Operations - Orders . . Dayle Blaser Johnson Mine Road, Dragoon, AZ 85609- Phone (520) Quarry four miles north of Mammoth - Agricultural gyp­ Transportation Coordination ...... Marcia Stewart 586-2241. Employees: 32 - Located north of exit 322 off Sierra Quarry TI2N R20E Sec. 20 sum - Company delivers and applies gypsum to crop land Blaser Stoneyard TI6N R2W Sec. 22 1-10 - Open pit copper mine - Heap leach - Solvent extrac­ Arizona Picture Rock Quarry TllN R14E Sec. 3 and golf courses. Black Cat Quarries T22N Rl W Sec. 17 tion-electrowinning plant - Capacity 45,000 lb. copper per Brown Quarry TI5N R19E Sec. 31 Buckskin Quarry TI7N R21E Sec. 30 Yellow Wasp No.2 T22NRIW Sec. 9 day. RED MOUNTAIN MINING INC. Arizona Gold Tl4N R21E Sec 25 Little Rock Quarry T22N R2W Sec. 24 White Cliff Diatomite T9S R17E Sec 24 4250 North Bush Highway, Mesa, AZ 85215 - Phone (602) Lizard Canyon Quarry nON RlE Sec. 32 P.O. Box 1049, San Manuel, AZ 85618 - Phone (520) 832-3390 - Employees: 28. Red Rock Quarry T22NRIW Sec. 20 385-2515 - Employees: 2 - Open pit diatomaceous earth STAR VALLEY GRANITE & MATERIALS Owner...... D. Lavoy Adams Golden Buckskin Tl9N R2E Sec. 19,20,29, and 30 mine and processing plant Under care and maintenance. Star Valley, HCR Box 43B, Payson, AZ 85541 - Phone Red Mountain Quarry T2N R6E Sec. 24 Cucamunga T22NRIW Sec. 9 (520) 474-9396 - Employees: 2 - Quarries and processes Quarry located 10 miles north east of Mesa - Crushed decomposed granite. Trick Tank T23N R2W Sec. 26 ARIZONA OXIDES granite for desert landscaping. 8250 N. El Mirage Road, El Mirage, AZ 85335 - Phone Owner/Operator...... Roy Haught Star Valley Granite Quarry TIIN RIlE Sec. 31 ANASAZI COMPANY (602) 935-9350, (800) 576-1500, Fax (602) 935-9365 - 7486 E. Adobe Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85255 - Phone (602) Employees: 13. SILICA MINES INC. P.O. Box 332, Oracle, AZ 85623 - Phone (520) 896-2245 - 585-9882 - Employees: 25 - Operates flagstone quarries in President ...... David C. Lincoln SUPERLITE BLOCK COMPANY Employees: 12. Coconino County and slate quarry in Maricopa County - Executive V. President & Gen. Mgr. . .. Vincent Scott 4150 W. Turney, P.O. Box 23163, Phoenix, AZ 85063 - President ...... Dave McGee Phone (602) 269-3561. Fabrication yard in Scottsdale - Marketed in the United Western Regional Sales Mgr...... Jerry Spinner General Superintendent ...... Pete Ruiz, Jr. States and Asia Eastern Regional Sales Mgr...... Bob Samuel President ...... Norman Stout Gold Hill Mine TlOS R15E Sec. 5 Darling Cinder Pit T21N R9E Sec. 2 Co-owner & Fabrication Manager . . . . . Grady Dawe Plant Manager...... Steve Licano Open pit mine - Located 6 miles southwest of Oracle - Co-owner & Mining Supervisor ...... Neil Cowie Technical Director ...... Barbara Penunuri P.O. Box 30956, Flagstaff, AZ 86003-0956 - Phone (520) Copper bearing silica flux for Asarco's Hayden copper Anasazi Stoneyard T4N R4E Sec. 14 Processing Plant 526-5499 - Employees: 5 - Open pit cinder mine east of smelter and decorative rock for landscaping. New River Slate Quarry TIN R3E Sec. 5 Grinding and sizing plant reduces crude hernatite to red iron Flagstaff - Volcanic cinders used to make building block at Rattlesnake Quarries T20NRIE Sec. 19 oxide pigment - Used in paints, plastics, concrete products the company's Phoenix and Mesa plants. Sidewinder Quarries T23N R2W Sec. 36 and as a mold release in castings -Marketed internationally. SOUTHWESTERN STONE, INC. Mine Superintendent ...... Terry Mitchell 18 S. Main, P.O. Box 454, Taylor, AZ 85939 - Phone (520) Iron Chancellor Mine T20N R6W Sec. 22 536-4912 - Employees: 12 - Quarries sandstone and fabri­ APACHE STONE DIVISION Open pit and underground hematite pigment mine - Mining SWANSEA MINERALS INC. cates building and patio stone - Diamond saws tiles and Halquist Stone Co. Inc. by contractors. Office: 6360 E. Rose Circle Dr. Scottsdale, AZ 85251 - decorative objects. 22040 N. 21st Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85027 - Phone (602) Phone (602) 994- 9964, Fax (602) 941-2473 - Plant located Owner/Operator ...... Baroara Chartrand 267-8658 - Employees: 9 (including contractors) - Quarries at 1210 E. Gilbert Rd., Building H2, Tempe, AZ - Employ­ Co-ownerlPlant Operator...... Lee Chartrand ees: 2 - Beneficiation plant Foreman ...... Pat Denetso President/General Manager ...... John Challinor

Arizona Directory of Active Mines Arizona Directory of Active Mines 8 17 Ariz. Business Unit Manager, Manager, Geological Services . . . . . M.S. Enders ARIZONA PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY Tucson Information Sen-ices Safety and Training...... William K. Bippus Director of Analytical Services State Sales Office Manager ...... T. Fedoruk Ariz. Business Unit Manager, Training Marvin Yoyokie /Raw Materials ...... D.K. Farquhar 2400 N. Central, Suite 308, Phoenix, AZ 85004 - Phone Mission Mine Tl6S R12E Sec. 36 Ariz. Business Unit Controller, . . . . Charles W. Tilly Safford District Office (602) 271-0069. Box Ill, Sahuarita, AZ 85629 - West Pima Mine Road­ Ariz. Business Unit Manager, D & S W. Steve Blomberg 625 Main Street, Safford, AZ 85546 - Phone (520) 428- Executive Vice President and Phone (520) 648-250,0 Fax (520) 648-0802 - Employees: Ariz. Business Unit Manager, 8720 - Land exchange underway. General Manager ...... Vaughn S. Corley 975 - Open pit copper mine - Two concentrators: Mission Maintenance ...... Warren W. White Project Manager ...... E.M. Schern Vice President, Sales ...... Craig Starkey and South with a total rated capacity of 63,000 TPD. New Cornelia Tl2S R6W Secs. 23, 26, 27 Rillito Plant & Quarry Tl2S RUE Sec. 26 General Manager ...... JohnD. Low

U PO...... RMEt · p.~nQQGE rOD POD A TTON l' n.. 1)p\.w.~/ ..'tr - ~jnuN,~,5Jz.],,- PhonE'! ('1'.0) 1R7-74,\1 - P-Q .. ~~,Jl~ ... ruUAo- AZ 85654 - Pho~~;tQt6. ~2.-~~U­ [email protected]~~,M;'IlF.J~~t-" .,,',,\,., .• . , \Nt. 1""(,.,l.\~,,McQt~.Qll1m, Corporate Headquarters Employees: 22 - Copper mine - Permitting & development. Employees: 144 - Twin Peaks limestone quany 5 miles west Mine Manager ...... S. L. Lakosky 2600 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004-3014 - Phone President ...... A.J. Broderick of plant - Cement plant - Capacity 1,100,000 TPY. Chief Engineer ...... _ . . B. M. Williams (602) 234-8100. United Verde Mine Tl6NR2E Sec. 22 Plant Manager _ _ ...... Dave Bittel Senior Geologist . . . . R B. Cummings Chainnan, President & CEO ...... D.C. Yearley Zinc explorationjoint-venture with Cominco - Located at Quality Control Superintendent .. John Bartolucci Maintenance Manager . H. E. Hughes Senior Vice President . .. I.S. Whisler Jerome, AZ - Phone (520) 634-2622. Quality Control Supervisor ...... Bill Phillips Mill Manager, Mission . . . D. Lawrence Senior Vice President . . . . M.J. Iraola Area Superintendent ...... RN. Mohr Plant Engineer ...... Russell Hawks Mill Manager, South . . . . D .E. Fisbeck Senior Vice President .. T.M. StClair Personnel Manager . . Mardi Nagy Financial Manager .. _ _ D. J. Hoffman Senior Vice President ..... RG. Peru PHOENIX CEMENT COMPANY Quany Supervisor Chuck Hansen Industrial Relations Manager .. . . J. F. Coxon Phelps Dodge Mining Company Phoenix Office Purchasing Agent . . _ . Tom Follett Electrical Manager ...... 1. B. Barton 2600 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004-3014 - Phone 2501 W. Behrend Drive, Suite 23, Phoenix, AZ 85027, P.O. Safety Administrator ...... R E. Jordan (602) 234-8100. Box 43740, Phoenix, AZ 85080 - Phone (602) 264-0511 - ARIZONA SILICA SAND COMPANY Sr. Environmental Engineer . . . . A T. Cooper President ...... I. S. Whisler Employees: 11. P.O. Box 108, Houck, AZ 86506 - Phone (520) 688-2602, Technical Services Manager . . . . C.A. Carroll Vice President & General Manager . . . . J.L. Madson v.P. Sales & Marketing ...... Pete Kuehner Fax (520) 688-2607 - Employees: 18 - Plant south of Houck Ray Operations TIS Rl3E Sec. 10 Vice President, Exploration ...... AL. Lawrence Bulk Cement Terminal - Hydrafrac sand for oil well treatment - Abrasives and mold Hayden Operations & Smelter T5S R15E Sec. 11 Vice President, Engineering Services . . .. R.W. Rice 1941 W. Lower Buckeye Road, Phoenix, AZ 85009 - Phone sand - Markets in Arizona, California, and New Mexico - Ray Complex, P.O. Box8,Hayden, AZ 85235 -Phone (520) Vice President, Arizona Operations . . . . . T.R. Snider (602) 258-7798. Bagged and bulk products available. 356-7811, Fax (520) 356-3802 - Employees: 1,621 - Open Vice President, New Mexico Operations .. W.S. Brack Clarkdale Quarry & Plant Tl6N R2E Sec. 11 President ...... Robert D. Fisher pit copper mine - Dump leach - Hcap leach - Solvent Vice President & Controller . . I.M. McCarty P.O. Box428, Clarkdale, AZ 86324 -Phone (520)634-2261 General Manager ...... James Burkewitz extraction-electrowinning plant with a capacity of 40,000 Director, Employee Relations . . .. S.L. Marcus - Employees: 165 - Quarry and plant two miles northwest Foreman _ _ _ _ _ . _ . . . . _ . _ Ralph Nelson TPY- Two concentrators: Ray rated at 32,000 TPD and Director, Strategic Supply ...... M.F. Upton of Clarkdale - 630,000 TPY - Cement used for building Evening Foreman...... Robert Castillo Hayden rated at 28,000 TPD - Smelter capacity 720,000 General Transportation Manager. . . I.P. Sheridan industIy. Houck Silica Sand T22N R29E Sec. 29 TPYand 1,600 TPD acid plant Phelps Dodge Exploration Corporation v.P. OperationslPlant Manager ... · John B. Conway Open pit hydrafrac sand mine. General Manager ...... · T.E. Erskine 2600 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004-3014 - Phone Assistant Plant ManagerlMaintenance · . Joe D' Avignon Manager, Ray Opemtions ..... · B.P. Boylan (602) 234-8100. Assistant Plant Manager/Engineering · ... Jim Wells ASARCOINCORPORATED Manager, Hayden Opemtions. . . . · J.A. Wilhelm President ...... AL. Lawrence Manager of Logistics . · . . . Cliff Ayres Tucson Office Technical Support Manager . . . · RE. Thompson Vice President & COWlSel ...... S.D. Colton Asst V.P. Finance . . . . · Micheal La Lond 1150 N. 7th Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85705, P.O. Box 5747, Mine Manager ...... · I.A Bowsher Copper Queen T23S R24E Sec. 15 Purchasing/Stores. . . . . · ... BillAyres Tucson, AZ 85703 - Phone (520) 798-7500, Fax (520) SX-EW Manager ...... · . G.R.Burns 36 W. Highway 92, Bisbee, AZ 85603 - Phone (520) 432- Environmental Engineer . · Floyd Fusselman 798-7781. Environmental Services Manager N. A Gambell 3621 - Employees: 54 - Mine dump leaching - Copper Verde Gypsum Tl3NR5E Sec. 11 Asarco Copper Operations Ray Concentrator Manager . . . . S. A McGhee precipitation plant P.O. Box 786, Camp Verde, AZ 86322 - Phone (520) Executive Vice President. . . . F. R McAllister Hayden Concentrator Manager _ . · G. L. Lubers Project Manager ...... D.N. Sexton 567-3854 - Gypswn and clay quany five miles east of Camp Assistant to the Electrical Manager, Ray . .. .. · . I. L. Weller Morenci. 81 square miles, centered on T4S R29E Verde on State Highway 260 - Supplies gypswn to plant at Executive Vice President _ . T.E.Scartaccini Electrical Manager, Hayden . . . . . G. T. Coryell 4521 State Hwy. 191, Morenci, AZ 85540 - Phone (520) Clarkdale - Agricultural and horticultural uses - Clay for Manager Development, Maintenance Manager, Ray .... RD. Thompson 865-4521 - Employees: 2,064 - Open pit copper mine - Two pond, ditch, and liner uses. Projects & Services . . . . . D. C. Dixon, Jr. Maintenance Manager, Hayden .. · Hugh Alexander concentrators (one with molybdenwn cireuit), total capacity Foreman __ _ ... _ ...... Bruce McDonald Financial Coordinator ...... O.Ho Support Manager ...... _ I. W. Mwphy 125,000 TPD - Three copper solvent extraction-electrowin­ Divisional Environmental Mgr. . . D. M. Yantorno Financial Manager ...... · . D.K. Hiemstra ning plants - two electrowinning tankhouses. Operation also PINAL HARVEST Director, Material Services . .. L. G. Widugiris Human Resources Director .... · . . W. E. Burrell recovers turquoise. dba PINAL GYPSUM COMPANY Chief Geologist ...... _ . S. A Anzalone Materials Manager ...... K. C. Newnam President ...... H.M. Conger P.O. Box 99, Coolidge, AZ 85228 -Phone (520) 723-3131, Santa Cruz and Engineering Manager ...... · . . RS. Rhoades General Manager, Operations ...... RH. White Fax (520) 723-9711 - Employees: 10. Special Projects Manager . . . D. F. Skidmore Safety Manager ...... T.C.Heyn General Manager, Technical Services .. . I.C. Galassini President and General Manager . . . . . James Bechtel Mineral Discovery Center Manager RW. Vugteveen Senior Geologist ...... · . . Greg Nickel Manager, Mining Operations...... 1.G. Davis Orders and Transportation ...... Kirke Anderson Specialty Products Group Silver BcD Tl2S R8E Sec. 11 Manager, Concentrator Operations .... T.E. Perkins Office Manager ...... Patricia Gerkin Commercial Director ...... G. P. Gillen 25000 W. Avm Valley Rd., Marana, AZ 85653 - Phone Manager, Hydrometallurgical Operations . W.J. Mitchell White Cross Mine TIS R17E Sec. 31 Governmental Affairs (520) 682-2420, Fax (520) 682-2347 - Employees: 110 - Manager, Engineering Services . . . .. RB. Kennedy Director, State Legislative Affairs ..... R.E. Quick Open-pit copper mine - Solvent extraction-electrowinning

Arizona Directory of Active Mines Arizona Directory of Active Mines 16 9 plant, 36 million lbs per year capacity - Silver Bell North BHPCOPPER Plant located at the intersection of Rittenhouse and Ocotillo OMYA (ARIZONA), INC. pit. Tucson Office in Queen Creek - Marble crushing and screening plant - P.O. Box 825, Lucero Valley, CA 92356 - Operations Manager ...... D. J. Duncan 7400 N. Oracle Road, Tucson, AZ 85704 - Phone (520) Crushed, sized white marble used for landscape, plaster, . Plant Manager (Arizona) ...... Manfred Keil Mine Manager ...... T.H. Phillips 575-5600, Fax (520) 575-5663. feed supplements, and specialty aggregate. Markets in the Queen Creek Marble Quarry TIS R13E Sec. 17 SX-EW Manager .. R.V. Washnook San Francisco Office Southwest. Employees: 5 - Marble quarry - Primary crushing and General Mine SupelVisor . J.A. Stalcup 550 California Street, 5th Floor Owner ...... · Mike Smith screening plant. Chief Engineer ...... H.T. Richins San Francisco, CA 94104 - Phone (415) 774-2545, Fax Owner ... . . · Gary Smith General Electrical Supervisor . R.E. Ruoho (415) 774-2530 . Plant Manager . · . Jim Heier OUTLAND RESOURCES INC. General Maintenance Supervisor D. A. Rosette Executive General Manager ...... Jim E. Lewis Sales ...... · Rick Erman 2260 E. Andy Devine, Kingman, AZ 86401 - Phone (520) FllX C;:"f.. tv Fnainf'f'r "nv QffiC'P Mllnll~pr T.indll Cllrt~T 751-1444 (520) 757-4972 - Emnlnvee!:: R (nII1!: cnn- -_. ~- ~ J}$~~g~l! ~~ ~~!1~~~PJ.~ ~M.Ft,~nec. ~:!~~~ .n , ... "" _. .., ... _. - Santa Cruz T6S R4E, Sec. 13 P.O. Box M, San Manuel, AZ 85631 - Phone (520) 385- tracted services). P.O. Box 11226, Casa Grande, AZ 85230-1226 - Phone 3100 - Employees: 1,850 - San Manuel and Kalamazoo MINERALS RESEARCH President ...... Patti Lewis (520) 421-3363 Fax (520) 836-0179 - Experimental in­ underground copper-molybdenum mine - 62,000 TPD con­ AND RECOVERY, INC. Vice President ...... Charlie StaIkebaum situ leach research project with j oint venture partner Free­ centrator - In-situ leach - Solvent extraction-electrowinning Tucson Office and Plant Seligman Quarry T23N R6W Sec. 32 port McMoran - Copper recovery by SX-EW plant plant - Capacity 120 million lb. copper per year. 4620 S. Coach, Tucson, AZ 85714 - Phone (520) 748-9362 Shipley Pit T25N RIOW Sec. 28 Santa Cruz Manager ...... D.F. Skidmore· Vice President & Gen. Manager. .. Doug McGregor - Employees: 54. Produces dolomite, sandstone, and natural colored aggre­ Site Manager ...... H.G. Kreis·· Manager Sulfide Mining . . . . . Ron Allum President ...... Michael Vick gates for landscape and specialty aggregate. • At Tucson Office - Phone (520) 798-7766 Fax (520) Superintendent Concentrator . Gerald R Brunskill Plant Superintendent Frank Phillipeck 798-7783 Superintendent In-situ ...... Dan Ramey V.P. Sales...... Steve Melhman PEABODY WESTERN COAL COMPANY ** At Tucson Office - Phone (520) 798-7717 Fax (520) Superintendent SX-EW ...... Joel Witt Ajo Plant and Slag Stockpile TI2S R6W Sec. 23 Flagstaff Office 798-7783 BHP Copper Metals Highway 85, Ajo, 85321 - Phone (520) 387-7682 - Proc­ 1300 S. Yale, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 - Phone (520) 774-5253 San Manuel Smelter T9S Rl7E Sec. 32 esses copper smelter slag for roofing granules and abrasives - Employees: 66. ASHTON COMPANY P.O. Box M, San Manuel, AZ 85631 - Phone (520) 385- - Sells copper smelter slag to out-of-state processors for President ...... W. Howard Carson 2727 S. Country Club, Tucson, AZ 85251 - Phone (520) 3100 - Employees: 1,060 - 1,300,000 TPY flash sme1ter- manufacturer of fUtration media, nuclear shielding, and ship Vice President, Operations . ., Gary L. Melvin 624-5500 - Employees: 7 (at Camp Grant Quarry). 1,150,000 TPY acid plant - 345,000 TPY electrolytic refin­ ballast Director, Human Resources · . J. Anthony Baca Camp Grant Quarry TIS R16E Sec. 5 ery - 180,000 TPY continuous cast rod plant. Director of Engineering .. . Daniel P. Cartwright Quartzite quarry - 480,000 tpy capacity crushing and Senior Vice President & Group MORTON SALT DIVISION Director of Accounting .. . · Mathew T. Lewis screening plant for silica flux for BHP's San Manuel copper General Manager ...... Craig Steinke Morton International Director, Operations Support . . D. Scott Pearson smelter. Vice President Operations ...... LarryDyer 13000 W. Glendale Ave., Glendale, AZ 85307 - Phone Senior Mgr. Environmental Affairs .. Brian P. Dunfee Crusher Superintendent ...... Bob Bishop Vice President Finance ...... John Perry (602) 247-3000 - Employees: 38. Arizona Business Unit Pinto Valley Operations TlNR14E Sec. 20 Facilities Manager ...... Geron Tumquest P.O.Box 605, Kayenta, AZ 86033 - Phone (520) 677-3201 Miami TlNR15E Sec. 19 Environmental Coord/Safety Mgr. . . . Michele Schuler Manager, Coal Operations . .. Charles J. Stenftenagel Morton Salt Mine TIN RI W Sec. 2 Manager, Reclamation & Local Affairs . . Teddy Begay Solution mining via wells - Solar evaporation of brines - General Manager ...... C. Scott Williams Produces salt for water softeners, domestic, agricultural, Manager, Compliance ...... Wayne E. Helgedick and industrial use. Manager, Engineering Mine . . .. Douglas G. Botone Black Mesa Mine T35N RI8E Sec. 5 NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY P.O. Box 605, Kayenta, AZ 86033 - Phone (520) 677-5040 Gold Bond Building Products Division - Employees: 331 - Surface coal mine - Located approxi­ C. This Arizona 1414 E. Hadley St., Phoenix, AZ 85034 - Phone (602) mately 30 miles southwest of Kayenta mine is located in 258-9321 - Employees: 58 - Wallboard plant - Wallboard Mine Superintendent ...... Buck R. Woodward Monument Valley joint cement plant. Assistant Superintendent, 1st Shift . . Barry L. Grass on the Navajo Na­ Plant Manager . . . Gary McEwen Assistant Superintendent, 2nd Shift Paul C. Yazzie tion. Office Manager . . · . Wendy Self Assistant Superintendent, 3rd Shift . Tim Kozela Production Manager · Robert Piercy Safety Supervisor ...... Keith Grass Joint Cement Quality Control · . Nick Tuhus Kayenta Mine T36N RISE Sec. 9 Feldman Quarry T6S Rl6E Sec. 27 P.O. Box 605, Kayenta, AZ 86033 - Phone (520) 677-5008 1103 South 77 Highway, Winkelman, AZ 85292 - Phone - Employees: 511 - Surface coal mine - Located 30 miles (520) 357-7180 - Employees: 5 - Open pit gypsum mine southwest of Kayenta located 12 miles south of Winkelman - Crude gypsum Mine Superintendent ...... · . Robert D. Boone shipped to Phoenix plant for manufacture of plaster board. Assistant Superintendent, 1st Shift . Randall L. Hendrix Quarry Superintendent ...... Robert Foster Assistant Superintendent, 2nd Shift · Tony G. Bryant Assistant Superintendent, 3rd Shift . · .. Jonas Grass Safety Supervisor ...... · . Daniel Ashike

Arizona Directory of Active Mines Arizona Directory of Active Mines 10 15 Lyles Mine Tl3N R6W Secs. 11, 12 KESSON AND KESSON P.O. Box 100, Miami, AZ 85539 - Phone (520) 473-6200 - tion-electrowinning plant - Capacity 60 million lb. cathode Open pit clay mine located west of Kirkland - Hectorite clay P.O. Box 174, Globe, AZ 85502 - Phone (520) 425-8452- Employees: 630 - Open pit copper-molybdenum mine - copper per year - Record of Decision and Environmental - Used as viscosifier and thickener in pharmaceuticals and Employees: 10. 63,000 TPD concentrator - Dump leach - Solvent extrac­ Impact Statement received and published in mid-1997 - cosmetics. Owner ...... Stewart Kesson tion-electrowinningplant - Miami in-situ leach - Miami No. Construction anticipated to begin early 1998. Grace Cbabazite Mine Tl2S R29E Secs. 1,2, 12 Copper Hill Mine TlN RISE Sec. 15 2 tailings reclaim leach - solvent extraction-electrowinning Open pit mine located 13 miles north of Bowie - Chabazite Silica flux for Cyprus Miami copper smelter - Mine located plant. CHEMICAL LIME - Used for cation exchange media, specialty adsotbants northwest of Globe. Scottsdale Office - Gainey Office (Sales) 7 Vice President/General Manager Dee Durazo deodorizers, and RAD waste treatment for adsotbing Cs 13 Manager Mining Operations ...... Dale Pierce 8777 N. Gainey Center Drive, Suite 280, Scottsdale, AZ and srx> KILAUEA CRUSHERS INC. Manager of Concentrator 85258 - Phone (602) 443-6980, (800) 288-9676 - Fax (602)

__ ._ P.O.Box 10606. Glendale. AZ 85318-0606 - Phone (602) 948-4293. B~po~ <;~ee~J;!~v .I!~~ ~}~~ ~~~c._~. _,_,,_. _~._..L ." . ~~~~~'''''' . ..: .:'.1 •• :_' • .:..:.. n:.·,-,;.. l~~k D. Conklin L..' __ ...... _._ • U"&~A'" ..... ;;; __•••• A-; __ , .... """ ...... \ Open pit clay mine located 8 miles southwest of Bagdad 843:-i888, F~'(60i) 561-1528 - Employees: 12. ''\ Manager Human Resources ...... David L. Palmer Vice President, Industrial Sales ...... Bob Plains along Burro Creek - Saponite clay - Shipped out of state for President ...... Bill Nichols Florence Account Representative ...... Brett Tanner manufacture into viscosifiers for detergents and drainage Picacho Quarry T6N R2W Sec. 5 14605 East Hunt Highway, Florence, AZ 85232 - Phone Account Representative ...... Darren Fry aid for treating pulp for fine white paper made from recycled Quany located 12 miles east of Morristown - Crushed (520) 868-5094 - Employees: 18 - Fully permitted in situ Scottsdale Office - Forum Office paper fibers. rhyolite for desert landscaping. copper mine project in pilot testing phase - Test includes 6263 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 280, Scottsdale, AZ 85250 Jomax Quarry T5NRIW Sec. 34 an in-situ leach and solvent extraction-electrowinning - Phone (602) 368-4200, (800) 978-0325 - Fax (602) 368- HARBORLITE CORPORATION Quany located 135th Avenue and Jomax Road - Crushed plant. 4220. P.O. Box 960, Superior, AZ 85273 - Phone (520) 689-5723, rhyolite for desert landscaping. Project Manager ...... John Kline President, Western Division ...... Bob Derks Fax (520) 689-2362 - Employees: 13 - Perlite crushing, Director New Business Development . . David Fleming screening, and drying plant located 2 miles west of Superior LEVIN STONE COMPANY, INC. BLACK CANYON MILLING Manager, Technical Services . . . . Starr Curtis - Two open pit perlite mines, located 2 miles southwest of P.O. Box 95, Ashfork, AZ 86320 - Phone (520) 637-2288- P.O. Box 33638, Phoenix, AZ 85067 - Phone (602) 374- Distribution Manager ...... John McMullan Superior - Used in the manufacture of filter media for Employees: 35-50 - Processing plant located on Double A 5547. Transportation Coordinator ...... Jim Kermey flltering pharmaceuticals, chemicals, sugar, and beverages Ranch Road 2 miles north of Ashfork - Quarries and proc­ OwnerlManager ...... Bill Schleisman Nelson Quarries & Plant T25N RI0W Sec. 25 and as an agricultural fertilizer carrier. esses sandstone from nine deposits - Purchases sandstone Black Canyon Mill TSN R2E Sec. 15 P.O. Box 370, Peach Springs, AZ 86434 - Phone (520) Plant Manager ...... Louie Lucero from independent quarries - Specializes in hand cut hearths, Mill located one half mile south of Rock Springs, west of 769-2271, Fax (520) 769-2305 - Employees: 72 -Limestone Assistant Manager ...... MikePutz table tops, and dimensional cuts. Interstate 17 - 3-ton-per-hour gravity mill consisting of quarry - Lime plant with two rotaJy kilns rated at 1800 TID SecretaJy - Orders & Transportation Jackie Alvarez President ...... PhilLevin crushing, grinding, magnetic separation, and table and cone lime - Markets include lime for flue gas desulfurization, Superior Perlite T2S Rl2E Sec. 9 Manager ...... LyleLevin concentration. water treatment, soil stabalization, and alkalinity control for Transportation & Maint. Supr. TIene Harrison copper ore beneficiation and gold leaching - By-product HARLEY GRAY STONE COMPANY BUILDING PRODUCTS COMPANY calcium hydrate used for ftller in asphaltic products. P.O. Box 323, Paulden, AZ 86334 - Phone (602) 237-3831 MADISON GRANITE Phoenix Plant Plant Manager ...... William Schoof or (520) 636-2436 - Employees: 25-35 - Quarries located 8 7050 Grand Avenue, Glendale, AZ 85301 - Phone (602) 4850 W. Buckeye Road, Phoenix, AZ 85043 - Phone (602) Maintenance Superintendent . .. Mark Phillips miles northeast of Drake - Quarries and processes Arizona 931-7760 - Employees: 6. 272-5576 -Employees: 2-3 (involved in clay mining) -Plant Quany Superintendent ...... Jim Blackwell flagstone into flagging, dimension stone, and tiles. President ...... Stan Novak consumes clay to produce extruded vitreous clay permanent Plant Buyer ...... Currently Vacant Owner ...... Carl Gray Madison Granite T5N, R2E Sec. 24 sewer pipe. ShippingfTransportation Coordinator . Currently Vacant Office Administrator Open pit granite quany - Located east of Interstate 17, 4 Plant Manager and Mining Supervisor. . Jon Humphreys Senior Process Control Engineer .... Gerald Findley (Phoenix phone number) . Nancy McCabe miles south of Carefree Rd. - Crushed granite products for Rim Quarry TllNR19E Sec. 30 Quality Control Technician ...... Peny Curley Flagstone Quarries desert landscaping. Clay mine located 10 miles southwest of Clay Springs. Douglas Quarry & Plant T24S R26E Sec. 7 New River Slate Quarry TIN R3E Sec. 5 4753 West Paul Spur Road, Douglas, AZ 85607 - Prone IRONITE PRODUCTS COMPANY McKUSICK MOSAIC Slate quany located approximately 6 miles northeast of (520) 364-2429, Fax (520) 364-2706 - Employees: 60 - Scottsdale Office Route 1, Box 35-D, Globe, AZ 85501 - Phone (520) 425- New River. Limestone quany and plant located at Paul Spur - 3 lime 8700 E. Via De Ventura, Suite 280, Scottsdale, AZ 85258 - 5051 or 425-8428, Fax (520) 425-7471 - Employees: 3. Dewey Ranch #2 TI4N RlE Sec. 15 kilns - Plant capacity rated at 1,000 TID lime - Markets Phone (602) 991-9804, Fax (602) 991-1727 - Employees: Co-owner ...... Robert & Charmion McKusick Clay mine located approximately 6 miles north of Dewey. include lime for alkalinity control for copper ore beneficia­ 45. Co-owner ...... Kathleen Condit tion, lime for soil stabilization, and crude crushed limestone President ...... Heinz Brungs Weary Lode Mine TIS R15E Sec. 22 CARLOTA COPPER COMPANY for flue gas desulfurization. Executive Vice President ...... Robert Morgan Surface clay mine located 5 miles south of Globe - Used for subsidiary of Cambior USA Inc. Plant Manager ...... Jeny Young Iron King Tailings Tl3N RIE Sec. 15 tile and wind chimes, cosmetic additives, sealants, horticul­ P.O. Box 1009, Miami, AZ, 85539 - Phone (520) 473-3518 Maintenance Superintendent ... . Richard Anderson Iron King Road, Humboldt, AZ, P.O. Box 218, Humboldt, tural mixes, and slip glazing material. - Employees: 21. Quany Superintendent ...... Don Russell AZ 86329 - Phone (520) 632-7214, Fax (520) 632-5747 - General Manager ...... Bob Walish Production Services Superintendent . . . . Robert Kline Reclaims zinc mine tailings - Activation, pelletization, and MINERAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. Mine Manager ...... George Bell Process Engineer ...... Pat Morgen packaging plant - Produces fertilizer-soil supplement which Superior Marble Division Human Resource Manager ...... Kevin Webster Quality Control Technician...... Louis Roqueni provides available iron, zinc, trace elements, and nutrients. 21555 East Ocotillo, Queen Creek, AZ 85242 - Phone (602) Carlota TIN R13E Sec. 36 Plant Manager ...... Hans Schmucher 987-1916, Fax (602) 987-1917 -Employees: 20. Located 8 miles east of Miami - Anticipated employment: Queen Creek Marble Processing Plant 300 - Open pit copper mine - Heap leach - Solvent extrac-

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