ROWLEY MINE, THEBA, MARICOPA CO., AZ
On May 31, 2002 Don, Patrick and I went to the Rowley Mine. This one isn’t in the Bearce book, so I called David Shannon and got directions from him.
We
took I-8 to exit 102 and went north on Painted Rock Road about 12.5 miles.
After the road turned right at the entrance to Painted Rocks State Park, we
turned onto the first dirt road on the right. We went in about 1.5 miles on
this road, bearing left at all forks. As you can see from the top picture, you
drive right up to the mine.
There
are two or three vertical shafts and a number of spoils piles, and no shade at
all! The temperature reached 113 F that day.
Minerals
we collected:
Barite
(#190)
Wulfenite
(#186)
Mimetite
(#188)
Vanadinite
(#187)
Chrysocolla
(#191)
Quartz
(#1001)
Descloizite
Cerussite
(#1025)
Fluorite
Chalcocite
Other
species reported from this locality that we did not find this trip:
Galena
Hematite
Covellite
Anglesite
Caledonite
Linarite
Atacamite
Diaboleite
Boleite
Leadhillite
Pyromprphite
(#189)
Willemite
Minium
Chalcopyrite
Malachite
Pyrite
For
more information on this mine, see The Mineralogical Record, vol. 5, pp. 12-30.