Black Butte group of claims (Black Butte prospect; Black Buck; Castle Butte claims; P and G claims; Dugan claim; Castle Creek depsoit), Castle Creek area, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
HollanditeBlack Butte group of claims, Castle Creek area, Castle Creek District, Bradshaw Mts, Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA
Photo: Rob Lavinsky Latitude: 34°1'13"N
Longitude: 112°28'38"W
‡Ref.: Ransome, F.L. and Jones, E.L. (1919) Deposits of Manganese Ore in Arizona. USGS Bull. 710D: 178.
Wilson, E.D. (1941), Tungsten Deposits of Arizona. Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 148: 25.
Farnham, L.L. & L.A. Stewart (1958), Manganese deposits of western Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7843: 61.
Dale, V.B. (1961), Tungsten Deposits of Gila, Yavapai, and Mohave Counties, Arizona, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8078: 33-34.
Lemmon, D.M., and Tweto, O.L. (1962) Tungsten in the U.S., USGS map, MR-25.
USGS & Arizona Bureau of Mines, and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (1969), Mineral and Water Resources of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 180 (USGS Bull.871): 218.
Lemmon, D.M. (unpublished data).
USGS Columbia Quadrangle map.
USGS Copperopolis Quadrangle map.
MRDS database Dep. ID #10026926, MRDS ID #M001111; and, Dep. ID #10161789, MAS ID #0040250407; and, Dep. ID #10210823, MAS ID #0040250964.
A former surface and underground Mn-W group of 2 unpatented claims/prospect located a short distance East of Castle Creek and 27 miles NE of Morristown. Started in 1940 and owned by W.L. Palmer. The deposit is also in sec. 28 and 33.
Andesitic flows, breccia and tuff of prevailing Northward dip, overlain on the ridges by thin soil. The principal vein occurs within a fault fissure that strikes irregularly Eastward and is traceable by float for a few hundred feet on the surface. It is intersected on the West by Northward-trending fissures containing gray limestone. The vein consists mainly of black manganese oxide together with a little calcite & quartz. It is 1½ to 2 feet wide where exposed. Tungsten content is confirmed but its form is unknown. Local scistosity strikes N60E, and dips 40NW. Pegmatite dikes strike N35E and dip 76NW.
Workings include a shallow cut.
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