Big Bug District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

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‡Ref.: The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Prescott, AZ: 54.

Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 126-127.

This is a gold-silver-copper-lead-zinc mining area located on the NE slopes of the Bradshaw Mts., East of Lynx Creek and about 12 miles from Prescott. It lies at between 4,500 feet and 7,000 feet of altitude.

The regional rocks are Yavapai schist intruded by diorite, granodiorite, granite and dikes of rhyolite-porphyry in places.

Production equals $17,000,000, of which $4,000,000 was gold (1901-1931)(period prices).

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Acanthite Actinolite Albite 'Amphibole Group' Andalusite Anglesite Ankerite var: Manganoan Ankerite Anorthite var: Labradorite 'Apatite' Arsenopyrite Augite Azurite Baryte Biotite Bornite

Bournonite Calcite var: Limestone Onyx Cerussite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chlorargyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chrysocolla Copper Covellite Cuprite Diopside Epidote Freibergite Galena

Galena var: Argentiferous Galena 'Garnet' Gold Hematite var: Specularite 'Hornblende' Kyanite Magnetite Malachite Marcasite Metahewettite Microcline Muscovite var: Sericite Orthoclase 'Psilomelane' Pyrite var: Auriferous Pyrite

Pyrolusite Quartz var: Chert var: Milky Quartz Siderite Silver Sphalerite Tangeite Tetrahedrite var: Argentiferous Auriferous Tetrahedrite Titanite 'Tourmaline' Tyuyamunite Vanadinite Zoisite

63 entries listed. 45 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

USA Arizona Yavapai Co. Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range) Big Bug District Bell Mine Big Bug Butternut Mine (Claims MS 1434 and 3768; Good Luck group) Big Bug Creek-Sycamore Creek confluence area Big Bug Creek Black Fox prospect Boggs flat Iron Queen Mine (Patented claims MS 1633) Boggs Mine (Boggs Patented 908 claim) Buckhorn group (Mardis group; Drumm group; Buckhorn Drumm group) Bulger Mine Bullion Mine Bunker Hill Mine (Bunker Hill prospect; Bunker Hill group; Old Bradshaw workings; Duco Boy Mine; Foster claims; Duco Box Mine; Arizona Standard Mining and Mill Co. property) Cabinet Mine (Cabinet claim) Challenge prospect Champion Mine Eugenia Mine Forest City prospect Galena Mine Gopher claim Hillside Mine Humboldt Huron Mine Lincoln claim Independence prospects Keystone Mine (Keystone claim group; Last Chance Mine; Madelein Patented claim; Cleveland Patented claim; Evening Star Patented claim; Alaska Patented claim) Mayer Big Bug Creek Yavapai Onyx Mining Corp. quarries Big Bug Creek area Blue Bell Mine (Blue Bell Mine and Quarry; Patented claims 1528; Blue Coat vein; Blue Buck claim) Henrietta Mine (Henrietta-Gopher Mine; Big Bug Mine; American Flag Mine; Braganza Gold Mine property 1906; Gopher MS 19 claim; Patented mining claims MS 1597) Mayer Onyx Quarry Pocahontas Mine (Pocahontas Copper Queen Mining Co. Mine; Copper Dome claims; Patented claims MS 1746; Claims MS 4624) Spar group of claims McCabe Big Bug placers Chaparral Gulch Chaparral Gulch Little Jessie Mine (Little Grace & Little Jessie; Ella Patented MS 1129; Chaparral Mining Co. property; Ohio Mines Co. property; Patented MS 1125-1126) Union Mine (Union group; Union and Eagle claims) Blaine vein Galena Gulch area Silver Belt-McCabe vein Arizona National Mine (Anderson Mine) Gladstone Western Extension Mine (Gladstone Westerly Extension claim) Lookout Mine (Look Out Mine; Lookout property) McCabe-Gladstone Mine (McCabe Mine; Gladstone Mine; Monopolist claim; Sink To Rise claim; Gladstone claim)

USA Arizona Yavapai Co. Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range) Big Bug District McCabe Galena Gulch area Silver Belt-McCabe vein Rebel Mine Silver Belt Mine (Richmond Patent MS 803 claim; Cabinet Silver Patent MS 1293 claim) Lelan-Dividend Mine Dividend Mine (Ohio Mines Co. Mine; Patented claims General No. 74-124) Lelan Mine (Lelan Patent MS 1522 claim; Leland Mine) Middleton Middleton Andalusite deposit Middleton Mine Middleton townsite Morgan Butte Camp B Mine (Camp B group; Albert pit; Brayton group; Golden Gate; Jones; Nil Desperandum group; Patented claims MS 2418) Crown Point Mine (Crown Point prospect) King Solomon Mine (King Soloman Mine; Patented claims MS No. 2773) NW¼ sec. 18; T.8N.; R.1W. Oury prospect Pentland Mine (Arizona Copper property) Pine Tree prospect Plata Bonita Mine (Plata Bonita Patented MS 408 claim; Plata Bonita Mining and Milling Co. property; Sun Dust Camp) Poland-Walker railroad tunnel Occidental vein Poland vein Poland Belle Mine Blue Rock vein Blue Rock Mine (Blue Rock prospect; Vulcan Mine; United Lead Co. Mine; Genung Spring Moly Mine) Express Mine (Express vein) Hamilton Mine Lynx Creek Accidental Mine Mesa Mine (Contention and Midnight Rambler Mine; Patented claims MS 1693) Money Metals Mine (Snow Drift Mine; Snowdrift Mine) Poland Mine (Poland property; Occidental vein; Poland-Walker tunnel; Patented claims 1052-1055 & 1616 & 3959) Providence Belcher Mine (Great Belcher Mine; Belcher claim; Belcher Patent MS 123 claim; Red Rock Mines; Red Rock Mine; Red Rock Patent MS 1225 claim) Big Bug Creek Gulch Fortuna Mine (Fortuna vein; Wizard Mine; Wizzard Mine; Anne Mine; Annie Mine; Patented claims MS 1231; 2222 and 1770) Seventy-Nine claim (Sunset and Polar Star Patents; Sunset & Bogart Mine; Sunset Patented claim 1211; Patented claims MS 1266) Copper Dike Mine Lottie Mine (Oriental Mining and Milling property) Merchants Home Mine (Block Estates; The First Home Patented claim MS 1807) Postmaster Mine (Oriental Mining Co. property) Sterling Mine (Sterling claim; Sterling and Binghamton MS 1316 claims) Taylor property Silver Belt Mine area Sunrise Mine Ticonderoga prospect Turkey Mine Twilight Mine Unspecified locality