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

‡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).