AzuriteAbe Lincoln Mine, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Latitude: 34°2'44"N
Longitude: 112°32'29"W
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USGS Morgan Butte Quadrangle map.
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Arizona Department of Mineral Resources Abe Lincoln Mine file.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10027576, MRDS ID #M003408; and, Dep. ID #10186537, MAS ID #0040250069.
A former underground Cu-Ag-Au-U-Fluorspar mine. Originally a copper mine, later prospected for uranium. Located in the SE ¼ sec. 11, T.8N., R.3W. (Morgan Butte 7.5 minute topo map), about 14 miles NE of Wickenburg. Started in 1917. Owned by The Abe Lincoln Mines (1952). Claims extend into the N½N½ sec. 14.
Mineralization is the Abe Lincoln vein system. Country rock is gneiss and schist complex of Precambrian age, locally intruded by Precambrian tourmaline granite and by younger dikes of both felsic and mafic composition, which cut both the metamorphic rocks and the granite. Predominent structural trends in the vicinity are N.50ºE. and N.32º-45ºW.
The vein system consists of 2 veins separated by a narrow basalt dike; all three are on the hanging wall side of a trachyte porphyry dike, and they, together with the trachyte porphyry dike, occupy a fault zone that strikes approximately N.50ºE. and dips 78º-89ºNW. Te vein on the footwall side of the basalt dike ranges in width from a few inches to 5 feet; the other vein, on its hanging wall side, is narrower. Slickensided gouge, from 1 to 18 inches thick, is common between the basalt dike and the footwall vein. The dikes are older than the ore, for they contain sparsely disseminated ore minerals.
Ore control was faulting, shearing and igneous activity - dikes. Ore concentration was oxidation at near surface. Alteration was minor to none.
Workings include 2 vertical shafts (660 & 175 feet deep, respectively) and 2 adits connected with 3,150 feet of drifts and crosscuts.
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