Buckeye Mine (Buckeye-Rural Mine), Wallapai Mining District, Cerbat Mountains (Cerbat Range), Mohave County, Arizona, USAi

Regional Level Types
Buckeye Mine (Buckeye-Rural Mine)	Mine
Wallapai Mining District	Mining District
Cerbat Mountains (Cerbat Range)	Mountain Range
Mohave County	County
Arizona	State
USA	Country

The Rural and Buckeye mines are in the northeastern part of the district, 1£ miles northeast of Mineral Park, near the south base of Cherum Peak, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet. They are reached by wagon road. They are situated but a few hundred feet apart on the same vein, the Rural being on the west and the Buckeye on the east side of the same gulch. The Rural is owned by E. F. Thompson, of Kingman, and the Buckeye by C. E. Lovett and others, of Denver, Colorado.

The Rural is developed principally by a 200-foot shaft, about 100 feet of drift, and a winze. The drift extends westward, its face being about 110 feet distant from the shaft. The shaft contains some water. The Buckeye is developed principally by about 750 feet of drift, extending in an easterly direction. Toward the face of the drift the vein is faulted off to the northeast by a lateral throw of about 75 feet.

The country rock is medium-grained gneissoid biotite granite and associated schist. It is intruded by dikes of granite porphyry. The deposits occur in a fissure vein which is 2 to 4 feet in width in the Rural and attains a maximum of 8 feet in the Buckeye. In the Rural it dips about 80°S. and in the Buckeye about 70°N. In both mines it is associated with a dike of the granite porphyry, masses of which occur to the northeast near by. The gangue is quartz and is generally "frozen" to the walls. It shows ore shoots ranging from 4 to 20 feet in width, which consist mostly of pyrite and chalcopyrite, with parallel streaks of arsenopyrite, black oxide of manganese, gray chert, and quartz, the quartz being more prominent in the Buckeye than in the Rural mine.

The ore contains silver, gold, and copper, with high silver and gold values. The display of ores from these mines, containing masses of solid silver and beautiful specimens of wire silver, is said to have been awarded the silver medal at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

The production, exact figures of which are not available, is reported to mount well into thousands of dollars in silver and gold, and much good ore is said to be available in the mines.