Jersey Lily Mine, Hassayampa District, Bradshaw Mts (Bradshaw Range), Yavapai Co., Arizona, USA

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‡Ref.: Lindgren, W. (1926), Ore deposits of the Jerome and Bradshaw Mountains quadrangles, Arizona, USGS Bull. 782: 117.

Wilson, E.D., Cunningham, J.B., and Butler, G.M. (1934), Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining (revised 1967), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 137: 44.

Elsing, M.J. and Heineman, E.S. (1936) Arizona Metal Production, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 140: 101.

U.S. Bureau of Mines - Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology file data.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources file data.

MRDS database Dep. ID #10109043, MRDS ID #M003271.

A former underground Au-Ag mine located about 4 miles South of the Ruth Mine and about 3 miles due South from the N.C.4 Mine at 6,000 feet of altitude. Discovered 1891 by R.H. Burmeister, W.C. Bashford, W.H. Ferguson and G.S. Ferguson. Owned by Hill & Burmeister of Prescott. Produced 1894-1940.

Mineralization is a vein deposit. Ore control was faulting and shearing. Ore concentration was oxidation at near surface. No alteration was noted.

Area structures include dikes and veins parallel to foliation in Precabrian rocks, which trends N-S to N10W.

Local rocks are slaty and fissile amphibolitic schists. The deposit is a thick Precambrian gold quartz vein of low-grade ore with scattered rich spots. Quartz is milky white and massive with a few small crystals & irregular, string-like veinlets of pyrite. Shows some stains of chromium mica.

Production was some $7,000 in gold (period values).

Mineral List

Muscovite var: Fuchsite

Pyrite

Quartz var: Milky Quartz

3 entries listed. 1 valid mineral.