Darling Cinder Pit

Darling Cinder Pit is a cinder pit mine near Winona, Arizona. It was named in honor of William B. Darling, a local railroad engineer.[1]

Darling Cinder Pit
Location
LocationWinona
Arizona
Coordinates35°12′02″N 111°24′02″W
Production
ProductsCinder

The mine is located near Cinder Mountain, a Tappan age basaltic cinder cone north east of Winona[2] In 1985 it was noted that the pit was the largest cinder-producing site in Arizona, with Arizona having the highest cinder production of any state in the US.[3] It was used by the Santa Fe Railroad to produce pumice[4] for track bed materials.[5][6] It has also been mined for use scoria to make cinder blocks for the building industry.[7] The railroad installed a Sauerman bucket and an anchor tower to transport rock to hoppers.[8]

References
  1. "Dinner Honors William B. Darling". Arizona Daily Sun. September 29, 1958. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
  2. Geology of Northern Arizona, with Notes on Archaeology and Paleoclimate: Area studies and field guides, Geological Society of America, 1974, p. 501
  3. Darling Cinder Pits (PDF), Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources Mining Collection, June 10, 1986, retrieved January 27, 2020, Arizona [was] #1 cinder producer in the country with an annual production of about 1 million tons. Superlite's Darling Cinder Pit is the largest producer in the state.
  4. Minerals Yearbook Volume II Area Reports Domestic. The Bureau of Mines. 1964. p. 117.
  5. "Santa Fe's Cinder Supply Good for 100 More years". Arizona Daily Sun. July 2, 1973. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
  6. "Annual Report of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway". Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company. 1965. p. 10. Retrieved January 14, 2020. Mountain of ballast for Santa Fe tracks near Darling, Arizona. Turkey Tank Mountain in the background of photo at right is a major source of our volcanic cinder ballast. Santa Fe has constructed special facilities at this location to move the cinders.
  7. Coe, Fredric L.; Favus, Murray J. (1980). 1993 The Year Book of Nephrology. Mosby-Year Book. p. 69. ISBN 0815119291. Used in Cinder Blocks
  8. Bradley, R. Collins. "Darling, Arizona". Kansas State Historical Archives (Photograph). Retrieved January 16, 2020. Distal view of a D-* caterpillar dozer with a large "U" shaped blade immediately after discharging cinders onto the "face of the rock pile" where a Sauerman bucket will pick up and transport the rock deposited to the hopper. Anchor tower at the Santa Fe's Darling, Arizona, cinder pit can be seen ...
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