List of Quarries in Arizona
& Quarry Links, Photographs and Articles

(The following list of Arizona quarries is not a complete list of all of the historical quarries in the state, only the ones I have been able to locate. If you know of more historical quarries in Arizona, please contact me. Peggy B. Perazzo).

• Map Showing Quarry Sites & Major Transportation Routes (circa 1962) in Stone In Arizona, (in PDF) by Roland C. Townsend, Consulting Geologist, Phoenix, Arizona, 1962. Originally prepared by the Arizona Development Board. 50 pp. (A reprint is offered from the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources: List of Available Publications.) (Stone in Arizona is available in PDF format on the Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources web site.)

  Following is a partial list of the Contents of Stone In Arizona: (III) General: History, Present uses, Industry economic status, Exploration, and Production and values; (IV) Resources: (A) Sandstone: Geology and area extent, Coconino sandstone, Structure, Composition and physical character, Production, Shipping, Costs, Specifications, products, trends in use, Problems, Moenkopi formation, DeChelly sandstone; (B) Marble: Geology and areal extent, Composition and physical character, Production, products, shipping, and costs, Specifications and trends, Problems; (C) Tuff: Terminology and general geology, Character of representative deposits, Production, and Problems; (D) Granite; (E) Slate; (F) Limestone; (G) Schist; (H) Miscellaneous stone: Rhyolite and porphyry, Basalt and scoria, Travertine, tufa, and onyx marble, Quartzite and quartz, Jasper, Copper stained rock, Magnesite, Serpentine; (V) Available Stone - Land Status and Acquisition of Mining Rights; (VI) Transportation & Freight Rates: Railroads and Trucking; (VII) Labor Market; (VIII) Depletion Allowance, Taxes, and Insurance; (IX) Potential; (X) Glossary; (XI) Annotated Bibliography; (XII) Agencies Concerned with Stone Industry; Map - Showing quarry sites and major transportation routes.)

• “Quarrying 1913” Photograph from the Northern Arizona University, Cline Library (The link for this photograph is no longer available on the web site.)
  <http://www2.nau.edu/~libei-p/scadb/recdisplay.cfm?control_num=644>
• Antelope Hill, Arizona - Andesite and Sandstone Quarries by Aboriginal Groups Abstract by Joan S. Schneider, from Quarrying and Production of Milling Implements at Antelope Hill, Arizona, Journal of Field Archaeology, published by Boston University. 23 (1996) 299-311.
• Apache County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Apache County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Francis Day & Sons, Richville Pit/Aggregates (employed 2) and (2) Town of Eager, quarried aggregates at various mine sites (employed 1).

• Ash Fork, Arizona – the American Sand Stone Flagstone Quarry (present-day company), 933 E Lewis Avenue, P.O. Box 316, Ash Fork, AZ 86320; 928-637-2542. According to the Ash Fork, Arizona, Community Profile, American Sandstone is one of the major employers in the area. The company quarries and ships flagstone quarried near Ashfork. (The link from which this information was obtained is no longer available.)
  <www.commerce.state.az.us/doclib/COMMUNE/ashfork.pdf>
  <http://www.americansandstone.com/>
• Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – Aztec Quarry – Direct Stone Sales (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by Direct Stone Sales. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
  • Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – Aztec Quarry – Pelham Stone Sales, Formerly Direct Stone Sales (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by this company and employed 7 people. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – Drake Stone Products (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated the following quarries. (The precise location of the "Blue Bird Quarry" is not noted. There were 9 people employed at the Blue Bird Quarry in 2000.) (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  A A Quarry, employed 1.

  Cinnamon Quarry, employed 4.

  Fitzgerald Quarry, employed 2.

• Ash Fork, Arizona - Sandstone Quarries Go West on Route - Take Historical Route 66 via Ash Fork, Seligman, but be sure to stop awhile for glimpses of the past, presented by Williams Grand Canyon News.

  "The sandstone quarried around Ash Fork is on many of the most notable buildings in the country and world."

• Ash Fork, Arizona – the Dunbar Stone Co. Flagstone and Dimension Stone Quarries, etc. (present-day company), 608 West Lewis Avenue, PO Box 246, Ash Fork, AZ 86320; (928) 637-2592. (The specific locations for the Armstrong Rose, Billy 1 and 2, and Roeder quarries are not listed.) (From The Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000 of the Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector, provides the following information for the Dunbar Stone Co.

  All of the following locations are involved in the Dunbar Stone Co. quarrying and preparation of flag stone and/or dimension stone.

  Armstrong Rose, employed 6.

  Billy 1 and Billy 2, employed 3.

  Blue Jay Quarry, employed 3.

  Horner Quarry, Ash Fork, employed 3.

  Roeder Quarry, employed 5.

  Yellow Buck Quarry, Ash Fork, employed 3.

• Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – J. C. Enterprises – Perez Quarry (Flagstone and/or Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was listed as producing flagstone and/or dimension stone in Coconino County. The company employed 4 people at the quarry in 2000. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Ash Fork, Arizona – the Levin Stone Company Inc. Flagstone Quarry (present-day company), 707 North Double A Ranch Road, P.O. Box 95, Ash Fork, AZ 86320; 928-637-2288.
• Ashfork, Arizona - Sandstone Quarries from "Route 66: Across 1930s Arizona" "Ashfork, 0.3 m., has developed considerable business in quarrying a tinted sandstone, found about ten miles away. This stone was used in many of the town's buildings and a large amount has been shipped to California."
• Ash Fork, Arizona – Stoneworld (Quarries) (present-day company) (Company address: 15979 N. 76th Street, Unit D, Scottsdale, AZ 85260; (480) 951-4418.

  The Stoneworld Company manages the operation of twelve quarries at Ash Fork, Arizona, which it produces eight colors of Arizona Flagstone.

  Quarry Division (includes photographs of quarries, etc.)

• Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – Stoneworld – Classic Oak Quarry (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by this company. The company employed 4 people at that location. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – Stoneworld – Sedona Red Quarry (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by this company. The company employed 5 people at that location. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Ash Fork, Coconino County, Arizona – Western States Stone (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarries listed below were being operated by this company. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Apache Quarry, employed 4.

  Big Red Quarry, employed 2.

  Santa Cruz Quarry, employed 3.

  Upper Red Quarry, employed 5.

• Chino Valley, Arizona - American Sandstone, P. O. Box 1154, Chino Valley, AZ 86323; (928) 636-4454 (present-day company) Quarriers, fabricators and suppliers of natural Arizona Sandstone.
• Cochise County in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona – Marble Quarry (1909/1910) (from “Marble Quarrying in Arizona,” (in PDF format) in Mine and Quarry magazine, Sullivan Machinery Co., Publisher, Chicago, Illinois, Vol. V. No. 2 - October, 1910, pages 440 - 443. (You can use the above link to read the article.)

  A corner in the Arizona Marble Co.’s quarry. (pp. 441)

  Sullivan duplex channeler at Arizona marble quarry. (pp. 442)

  A fine panel of Arizona marble. (pp. 442)

  Blocks in the storage yard. (pp. 443)

  This marble quarry, reportedly one of the “one of the largest deposits of marble in the country,” was decried in the article, “Marble Quarrying in Arizona” (in PDF format). When the article was written in 1910, the color of the marble quarried was “white, with pronounced dark veinings, and a predominating flesh tint.” Prominent buildings constructed with this marble were: The First National Bank Building, Denver, Colo., and the bank buildings at Champaign, Ill., and Missoula, Montana. The location of the 1909/1910 deposit was described as follows: “The deposit now being worked is 14 miles from Olga Station, the shipping point (eight miles from Bowie), on the Southern Pacific Railway, and the last three miles of this distance are in the mountains.”

• Cochise County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Cochise County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Ashton Company, Various mine sites PC #2 (employed 17); (2) F N F Mining Co., A division of F N F Construction, operated a portable crusher (employed 20); (3) L. Sheldon & Company, Tombstone (employed 2); (4) Maddux & Sons, Inc., ADEQ 4052-94 Equipment #002 (employed 7); (5) Texas Canyon Rock & Sand (employed 4); (6) United Metro Materials, Plate 229 Sierra Vista (employed 8); (7) Young Block Co., Inc., Sierra Vista Sand Pit (employed 5).

• Coshise County, Arizona – Cross Spear Marble, Inc. – Cross Spear Marble Quarry (present-day company) 1741 East Morten Ave, Suite A, Phoenix, AZ 85020-4645; (866) 820-6600. (The following quotation is used with permission.)

  "Located in Southeastern Arizona, Cross Spear Marble, Inc. (CSM) is located near the Chiricaua National Monument and the Fort Bowie National Historic Site on privately owned ranch. The working cattle ranch has been in operation since the 1880's. The quarry spans over 50 acres and contains five distinct veins of various colored marble and limestone. Once the marble and limestone are extracted from the quarry, CSM is capable of producing various sizes of rock for multiple customer needs.

  "The Cross Spear Mine is an excellent deposit of marble and marbleized limestone along the western foothills of the historic Chiricahua mountains of southeastern Arizona.

  "The deposit is extensive and contains several colors. It is on land owned by the Riggs family, long time ranchers in Willcox, Arizona.

  "In the days when Apache Indians roamed the area, it is said that the famed Apache Chief, Cochise, stood on a mountain just above where the mine is located, noted the two canyons below crossed and he said they resembled a "cross spear." The mining venture took its name from this and became Cross Spear Marble, Inc.

  "The deposit is mined by simple open pit methods. The marble is crushed and then sized with screens. Sizes range from boulders to nearly sand, depending upon what the customer wants. Several colors are available: white, natural red, gray, green, and black.

  "A principle application of Cross Spear Marble products is stone for decorative landscaping. Another application is for compacted road surfacing. Future products include marble slabs, tile, terrazzo, and other high-end marble applications."

  Cochise County, Arizona – Cross Spear Marble, Inc. Cross Spear Marble Quarry (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated a marble quarry in Cochise County and employed 3 people at that quarry. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

• Cochise County, Arizona – Roy Anderson Stone dba Apache Stone Apache and Bluebell Quarry (Flagstone - Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company quarried flagstone and dimension stone in Cochise County and employed 7 people at Apache and 6 people at the Bluebell Quarry. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Coconino County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Coconino County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Arizona Department of Transportation, Kolberg WO15 (employed 4); (2) C. S. McCrossan, Inc., PE 127 and portable equipment (employed 6); (3) J. R. Excavating Company, J. R. Aggregate Plant (employed 4); (4) United Metro Materials, Plant #337 / Gray Mountain (employed 7).

• Coconino County, Arizona – the Blaser Corp. dba American Sandstone (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following mines or plants were being operated by this company. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Apache Quarry, employed 1.

  Coconino Quarry, employed 7.

  Golden Buckskin-Drake, employed 4.

  Mills Quarry, employed 71.

  Santa Cruz Quarry, employed 8.

  Black Cat Quarry, employed 13.

• Coconino County, Arizona – Hammond Wholesale Flagstone (present-day company) The information for the company follows: "New 124 Rd., Hammond Oak," and the company employed 7 people. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Coconino County, Arizona – Harley Gray Stone (Flagstone and/or Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following company was listed as producing flagstone and/or dimension stone in Coconino County. The information for the company is listed below. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Appletree Quarries – Drake, employed 39.

  Mary Lee Quarry – Drake, employed 9.

  Nine Strike Quarry – Drake / Chi Chi, employed 8.

  Oak Quarries – Ash Fork, employed 5.

  Oak SW ¼ T23N, S 29, employed 5.

  Red Quarry – Ash Fork, employed 2.

  Red SW ¼, T 23N, R 3W, S 29, employed 4.

• Coconino County, Arizona – Horner Stone (Flagstone and/or Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was listed as producing flagstone and/or dimension stone in Coconino County. The information for the company is listed below. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Bacon & Beans Quarry, employed 2.

  Cucomunga Quarry, employed 6.

  Jericho Quarry, employed 2.

  Rock 2 Quarry, employed 2.

• Coconino County, Arizona – Howard Gray Stone (Flagstone and/or Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was listed as producing flagstone and/or dimension stone in Coconino County. The information for the company is listed below. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Above House Quarry, employed 4.

  Million & Buff Grind Stone / Above House, employed 1.

  Rosa Grind Stone, employed 1.

  Rosa Quarry – Drake, employed 1.

• Coconino County, Arizona – Levin Stone (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following mines or plants were being operated by this company. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Ferno Quarry, employed 2.

  Hells Bells Quarry, employed 1.

  John Brown Quarry, employed 14.

  Paradise, employed 2.

• Coconino County, Arizona – Stone Mountain (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by this company. The company employed 6 people at this site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Coconino County, Arizona – Three Wins Quarries – 3 Wins Quarries (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by this company. The company employed 21 people at this site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Coconino County, Arizona – Western States Stone – West Quarry – Drake (Flagstone and Dimension Stone) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this quarry was being operated by this company. Five people were employed at this quarry site in 2000. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Flagstaff, Arizona (1 mile east of Flagstaff) - Sandstone Quarry (photograph) Photograph in the collection of Cline Library, Special Collections and Archives Department Northern Arizona University.(The link to this photograph is no longer available.)
  <http://www2.nau.edu/~libei-p/scadb/recdisplay.cfm?control_num=2742>
• Fort Apache Indian Reservation - Fort Apache Historic Park - Local Stone Quarry (photographs and history), presented by Galen R. Frysinger, the traveler.
• Fredonia, Arizona - Pipe Spring National Monument - Red Sandstone Quarries, presented by Rand McNally Road Trip Guide.  (The link from which the following information was obtained is no longer available.)
  <http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/explore/exploreStateNationalParks.jsp?state=AZ>

  Buildings still remain which were constructed with red sandstone quarried nearby.

• Gila County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Gila County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Dalmolin Excavating, B H P Pinto Valley (employed 6); (2) Gradeline Construction, Inc., Young Plant (employed 3); (3) Granite Construction Company, Portable Crusher #1717 (employed 6); (4) Payson Concrete & Materials, Crushing Plant (employed 3), Old Tonto Pit (employed 4), and Payson Plant (employed 2); (5) Tonto Redi-Mix, Inc., Tonto Pit #1 (employed 4); (6) United Metro Materials, Plant #602 Bixby Rd., Nugget Pit (employed 10), Plant 601 (employed 3); (7) United Metro Materials, Inc. (formerly Guzman Materials), Globe Plant (employed 20); (8) United Metro Materials Inc. (formerly Guzman Materials), Nugget Wash Plant (employed 20).

• Gila County, Arizona – High Desert Materials – Young Granite Mine (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company produced aggregates in Gila County. The company employed 2 people at this site in 2000. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Gila County, Arizona – Kessen & Kessen – Cyprus Lime Quarry (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was listed as producing lime in Gila County. The company employed 2 people in 2000 at this quarry. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Gila County, Arizona – Star Valley Granite – Star Valley Granite Mine (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was listed as producing aggregates in Gila County. The company employed 1 person in 2000 at this mine. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Graham County, Arizona – Matthewsville Pit – Matthewsville Excavating – Aggregates (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was listed as producing aggregates in Graham County. Two people were employed at this site at that time. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Greenlee County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Greenlee County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) W. A. Morris Sand & Gravel, Phelps Dodge Morenci (employed 15); (2) Oakcreek Contracting, Inc., Old Virden Highway Pit (employed 2); (3) Tipton Contracting, Tipton (employed 3).

• Hewitt Canyon, Arizona - the Queen Creek Marble Quarry. The Rockhounds West Geology Club Visits the Queen Creek Marble Quarry in the Hewitt Canyon Adjacent to the Superstition Wilderness by Tom Horton. (Scroll down to Hewitt Canyon).(The link from which this information was obtained is no longer available.)
  <http://www.sun-city-west-az.com/hewitt_canyon_field_trip.htm>
• La Paz County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in La Paz County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Ashton Company, Portable Crusher #19750 PC #1 (employed 5); and (2) La Paz County Public Works, Cibola Pit - ADEQ 100981 (employed 6).

• Maricopa County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Maricopa County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) A & A Materials, Inc., A & A Screening Plant, Apache Junction (employed 3); (2) Ajax Sand & Rock, 51st Avenue (Ajax Contracting) (employed 3); (3) Cemex U S A (formerly Sunward Materials), Sun City Plant #77 (employed 18), El Mirage (employed 2), Lehi Plant (employed 3), Plant #71 (Mesa) (employed 30), Sun City Plant #67 (employed 10), West Plant #72 (employed 22); (4) F N F Mining Co., a division of F N F Construction, 79-03 (employed 5); (5) Hanson Aggregates of Arizona (formerly Pioneer Concrete), San Domingo/aggragate (sic), Wickenburg (employed 1; (6) Kilauea Crushers, Plant 2 / Jomax Plant (employed 3); (7) Mesa Materials, Inc., Mesa Plant (employed 25) and Sun Materials Plant #2 (employed 15); (8) New West Materials, PC #2 (employed 10), Portable Crusher #3 (employed 4), West Phoenix (employed 12); (9) Phoenix San Man, Goodyear Plant #13 (employed 4); (10) Quackenbush Construction Corp., Parker Mine (employed 2); (11) Rainbow Enterprises, 75th Avenue Pit and plant No. 2 (employed 2); (12) Salt River Sand and Rock, Beeline Plant #1 (employed 32), Dobson Plant (employed 144), Glendale Plant (employed 15), Higley Road Plant (employed 28), Sun City Plant (employed 28); (13) South West Sand & Gravel, Inc., South West Sand & Gravel Pit (employed 7); (14) Southwest Rock Products, Queen Creek (employed 2); (15) Sun State Rock & Materials, Plant 1, 115th and Beardsley (employed 29), Plant 6, North Central Avenue (employed 4); (16) Sun Valley Mining Company (aka Superstition Crushing), various locations (employed 6); (17) Superstition Crushing, L L C, # 18 (employed 6), #22 (employed 5), PC #17 (employed 6), Portable 11 / #21 (employed 5); (18) T. R. P. L. L. C., Plant #1 & #2 (employed 5); (19) United Metro Materials, Plant 113 / Cave Creek & Peak View Rd. (employed 1), Plant #106, employed 8, UM Plant 111/3640 S 19th Ave. (employed 39), UM Plant 112 (employed 5), UM Plant 2 / Beeline & McDowell (employed 5); (20) Vulcan Materials, CalMat Div., Phoenix Plant #32 (employed 20), Plant 12 - Sun City (employed 36), Plant 24 - Litchfield (employed 22).

• Maricopa County, Arizona – Ft. McDowell Sand & Gravel – Granite Sanner Pit (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated the Sanner Granite Pit and employed 2 people at this site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Maricopa County, Arizona – Superstition Mountain Stone – Superstition Mountain Granite Pit (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated the Superstition Mountain Granite Pit and employed 7 people at the site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Mayer, Arizona - "Mexican Onyx." Quarry from an article entitled, Buckey O'Neill, presented by the Sharlot Hall Museum.
• Mohave County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Mohave County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Cox Rock Products, Lake Havasu Pit (employed 4); (2) Desert Construction, Inc., Hualapai Pit - Rosslynn Rd. Pit (employed 7); (3) Dick Merritt Consruction, Sacramento Mine (employed 2); (4) F N F Mining Co., A division of F N F Construction, 71-09 (employed 8); (5) Kiewit Western Co., Crusher #2 ADEQ 1000470 (employed 7); (6) Kingman Redi-Mix, Airport Drive (employed 1); (7) McCall Construction, McCall pit (employed 4); (8) Mohave Concrete & Materials, Fort Mohave Indian Reservation (employed 7), Kingman Plant (employed 7), Lake Havasu Plant (employed 3), Oatman Road Plant (employed 7); (9) Precision Aggregate Products, LLC, Hidden Valley (employed 6); (10) Southern Arizona Paving & Construction Company, Aztec Materials Quarry (employed 1); (11) T & F Enterprises, Pit 101 (employed 1); (12) Tri-R Construction, Pass Canyon/Silver Creek (employed 3); (13) United Metro Materials, Bullhead City, Plant 882 Bull Head Parkway (employed 10), Plant 882 Fort Mohave Aztec Road (employed 6); (14) Walker Trucking (employed 2).

• Mohave County, Arizona – Chemical Lime Company – Nelson Lime Plant (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated the Nelson Lime Plant in Mohave County and employed 71 people at the plant. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Mohave County, Arizona – Dunbar Stone – Hualapi Chocolate (Flagstone and/or Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company was operating at this location in Mohave County and employed 5 people at this location. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Mojave Valley, Arizona – the Pittman Quarry, 8455 Boundary Peak Road, Mohave Valley, AZ 86440; (928) 768-5604.
• Navajo County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Navajo County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Brimhall Sand, Rock & Building Materials, Inc., Brimhall Pit (employed 3), Cottonwood Wash Pit (employed 15), and Hardluck Pit (employed 16); (2) Cholla Ready Mix, Perkins Perkins Valley Pit (employed 3), Woodruff Butte (employed 6); (3) Dyna Rock, Chevelon (employed 2); (4) Fisher Industries, Southwest Division, Anderson Pit (employed 10); (5) Hatch Construction & Paving, Inc., 4 Mile Pit & Plant (employed 3) and Ellsworth Pit, Crushing Plant (employed 15); and (6) Reidhead Sand & Rock, Inc., Reidhead Sand & Rock (employed 5).

• Pima County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Pima County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) C. S. McCrossan, Inc., M-555, PE 353 (employed 9); (2) Cemex USA, Apex Plant (employed 13), Ina Road Plant #23 (employed 30), Pima Mine Plant #117 (employed 11); (3) Excalibur Excavating, Inc., Sunset Pit (employed 3); (4) Granite Construction Company, Swan Road Pit (employed 20), Tangerine Pit (employed 20), and other various mine sites portable equipment (employed 22); (5) Sierrita Ranching & Mining, McGee Ranch (employed 5); (6) Tucson Ready Mix, Inc., Valencia Plant 64 (employed 3); (7) United Metro Materials, Plant 223 Cortaro (employed 28); and (8) Valley Rock & Sand Co., McCann Pitt (employed 4).

• Pima County, Arizona – Arizona Portland Cement Company – Rillito Limestone Quarry (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated the Rillito Limestone Quarry and employed 25 people at the site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Pima County, Arizona – Georgia Marble – Marble/Limestone Quarry (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this company operated this quarry and employed 14 people at the site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  Pima, Arizona – Limestone Operation Leased by Georgia Marble, of Kennesaw, Georgia, from Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc. Georgia Marble signed a "long-term lease of SMI's limestone operation in Pima, Arizona" in October, 1997. (From "Specialty Minerals Inc. and The Georgia Marble Company Enter Leasing Agreement for SMI's Arizona Limestone Operation," October 29, 1997. (The link from which the following information was obtained is no longer available.)
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  The SMI operation at Pima produced limestone primarily "for use in industrial applications such as construction and paint." The operation is in the Helvita Mining District of Arizona. Also in the Helvita Mining District at Vail, Arizona, is another limestone operation owned by Georgia Marble at the time of this agreement to lease SMI's limestone operation at Pima.

  The article mentions that at that time Georgia Marble was "a leading producer of high quality limestone products with operations in the northeast, southeast and western United States."

• Pima County, Arizona - Marble Deposits. The following information is from The Monumental News, “Quarry Notes” section, August, 1895, Vol. 7, No. 8, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 504-505.

  “The Southern Pacific Railroad is looking into the matter of running a track in Pima Co., California,* to open up remarkably fine marble deposits in that county. The tract is some ten miles from the railroad, thirty miles from Tucson.”

  (* Should be Arizona rather than California.)

• Pinal County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Pinal County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Cemex USA (formerly Sunward Materials), Port. Crush #2314/#50/Queen Ck (employed 45), Queen Creek Plant 75 (employed 11); (2) Kalamazoo Materials, New Superior (employed 8); (3) Martin Group (employed 3); (4) Oliver Mining Company, Coolidge Pit (employed 5), and Queen Creek Pit (employed 5); (5) San Xavier Rock & Materials, Catalina Wet Plant (employed 10); (6) Superstition Crushing, L.L.C, #16 (employed 4), #15 (employed 6); (7) United Metro Materials, Plant 226 Catalina (employed 2), UM Plant 48 / Hwy. 93 2 mi. N. of Casa Blanca (employed 27), UM Plant 49 / 2305 S. Rooftile Rd., Casa Grande (employed 13), Winkleman / Superior Plant 546 (employed 5); and (8) United Metro Plant #640 (Formerly Clark Trucking), Mammoth Plant #640 & River Road Pit (employed 12).

• Pinal County, Arizona – Catalina Marble, Inc. – Indian Town Quarry (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this marble quarry was in operation employing one person at the site. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Pinal County, Arizona – Walker Butte Granite Mine (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this granite quarry was in operation employing 12 people at the mine. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Santa Cruz County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Santa Cruz County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) C. S. McCrossan, Inc., PE-185 (employed 2); (2) Coronado Group, L.L.C. (formerly J D 1, Inc.), Rio Rico Plant (employed 6); (3) Padilla Sand & Gravel Redi Mix, Inc., Agua Fria Plant (employed 7); (4) Padilla Sand and Rock, Agua Fria Plant (employed 2); and (5) United Metro Materials dba San Xavier, Plant 228 Nogales (employed 2).

• Vail, Arizona – Georgia Marble Company of Arizona – Limestone Operation. (16101 S. Wentworth Road, Vail, Arizona 85641; (520) 762-9119) (The link from which the following information was obtained is no longer available.)
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  Pima, Arizona – Limestone Operation Leased by Georgia Marble, of Kennesaw, Georgia, from Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc. (From "Specialty Minerals Inc. and The Georgia Marble Company Enter Leasing Agreement for SMI's Arizona Limestone Operation," October 29, 1997.)

  This announcement also mentions that Georgia Marble had another limestone operation in the Helvita Mining District at Vail, Arizona. At that time Georgia Marble was "a leading producer of high quality limestone products with operations in the northeast, southeast and western United States."

• Waterman Mountains, Arizona - Limestone Quarries (brief mention)
• White Mountains, Arizona – the Cedar Creek Stone Quarries, LLC, Sandstone Quarry (photographs) located in the White Mountains of Arizona just off the I-40 corridor (present-day company)
• Yavapai County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Yavapai County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) Bell Enterprises, Sanders Pit (employed 2); (2) Central Mtn. Materials, L.L.C., Mortimer Mine (employed 3); (3) Dunbar Stone, Perkins Pit (employed 1); (4) Earth Products (employed 16); (5) Granite Mountain Materials, Dosie Pit (employed 2); (6) Hanson Aggregates of Arizona (formerly Pioneer Concrete), Clarkdale Pit (employed 13); (7) Hoss & Son, Star Placer (employed 1); (8) Meadow Valley Contractors, Inc., Prescott Valley Pit 8 (employed 15) and Pit 9, Chino Valley (employed 7); (9) Superior Companies, Cherry Pit (employed 4); (10) Superstition Crushing, L L C, Star Placer Pit (employed 9); (11) United Metro Materials, Plant #550 (employed 3), Plant #556 Cp. Verde Superi (employed 10), Plant 556 Camp Verde - Cherry Pit (employed 20); (12) United Verde Materials, United Verde Pit (employed 3); (13) Vastco, Inc., Del Rio Pit (employed 2); and (14) Wheeler Construction, Inc., Ash Fork Pit (employed 12).

• Yavapai County, Arizona – Drake Stone Products – Antolini/Antelope & Red, Paulden Sand & Rock, & the Perkins Pit (Flagstone and/or Dimension Stone) (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, these sites were in operation employing 12 people. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Yavapai County, Arizona – Prescott Valley Granite – Prescott Valley Granite Pit (present-day company) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, this concern was in operation employing 2 people. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)
• Yavapai County, Arizona – Western State Stone Co., Inc. Sandstone Quarries. In 1955 Western State Stone Co., Inc., owned thirteen sandstone quarries in Yavapai County, Arizona. The headquarters for the company was in Santa Clara, California. (From United States Geological Survey, "Mineral Industries Surveys – Directory of Principal Dimension Stone Producers in the United States in 1995," prepared in January 1997.)
• Yuma County, Arizona – Aggregates (present-day companies) At the time of the report noted below for the year 2000, the following companies were listed as producing aggregates in Yuma County. (From Eighty-Ninth Annual Report For the Year 2000, Douglas K. Martin, Office of the Arizona State Mine Inspector.)

  (1) B T Z dba Zellers Excavating & Paving, Black, Hill Mine (employed 14); (2) Meadow Valley Contractors, Inc., PC (employed 10); and (3) W & L Inc., W & L Pit (employed 7).

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