Pine Grove 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: 51.

Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 164.

Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd. ed.: 167, 236.

This is a silver-gold mining area located North of the Tiger District. It covers a few square miles North of Crown King and East of Towers Mountain (diorite mass) at 6,000 to 7,500 feet of altitude.

Country rock is a Northeastwardly-trending belt of schist which is intruded on the East by granite, on the West by granite and diorite, and on the SW by granodiorite. These rocks are cut by Northeastward-trending dikes of granite and rhyolite-porphyry.

Vein gangue consists mainly of quartz with some ankerite and calcite. Most mines are situated in granodiorite (quartz diorite according to Jaggar and Palache), which forms a rounded mass 3 to 4 miles diameter, intruded into Bradshaw granite and still earlier Yavapai schist. The granodiorite is cut by a series of dikes which trend north-northeast across the center of the area. There are three prominent vein systems, which trend north-northeast and generally dip about 60º WSW. The shoot have a tendency to pitch northward. Few of the veins are more than 5 feet wide.

Mineral List

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

Albite 'Albite-Anorthite Series' Anglesite Ankerite 'Apatite' Baryte Beudantite Biotite Calcite Cerussite Chalcanthite Chalcocite

Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chrysocolla Covellite Fluorite Galena Gold Hematite Hidalgoite Jarosite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia' Limonite

Magnetite Malachite Metatorbernite Mottramite Muscovite var: Sericite Opal Orthoclase Osarizawaite Pyrite Pyromorphite Quartz var: Amethyst

Quartz var: Smoky Quartz Siderite Silver Sphalerite Stolzite Tetrahedrite Titanite 'Tourmaline' Wulfenite

54 entries listed. 35 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

USA Arizona Yavapai Co. Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range) Pine Grove District Bladena claim Crown King Crown King Mine (Crowned King Patent MS 1776 claim; Patented claims MS 824; 825; 1716) Fairview Mine (Fairview tunnel; Fairview group; Hill Billy Mine; Patented claims MS 2107 and 3773) Gorilla claim Horse Thief Canyon Algonkian tunnel (Anaconda claim) Lane Mountain Fat Jack Mine Lincoln Mine (Rough Rider Patented claim 1599a; Patented claims 1599a & 1599b) Philadelphia Mine (Philadelphia and Nelson groups; Philadelphia tunnel; Patented claims MS 3139a and 3139b and 2823)

USA Arizona Yavapai Co. Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range) Pine Grove District Crown King Springfield Mine (Springfield group; Springfield shaft; Venus claim; Gorilla claim) Tough Mountain property War Eagle Gulch Unnamed mine War Eagle Mine Idlewild Mine Shelton claim Towers Mountain area Wildflower Mine (Anaconda tunnel; Sabronje shoot; Sabronje drift; Patented claims 1232; 1233; 1235; 1236; 4542; 4544; Green Mountain Gen. No. 289 claim) Towers Mt. area Del Paso group of claims Walnut Grove Silver Crown Mine (Silver Crown Mining Company property; Money Maker Mine; Surprise Mine; Black Bear claim; North Boulder claim; South Boulder claim)