Bullwhacker Prospect

The Bullwhacker Prospect is a gold mine located in Yavapai county, Arizona at an elevation of 5,699 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Bullwhacker Prospect  

State:  Arizona

County:  Yavapai

Elevation: 5,699 Feet (1,737 Meters)

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 34.54722, -112.40861

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Mine Description

The Bullwhacker mine is about 4 miles in air-line east of Prescott and a short distance south of the Dewey road, on the divide between Granite and Agua Fria creeks. The principal rocks are dense black schists with dikes of diorite porphyry, intruded 0n the West by Bradshaw granite. Blake”, in 1898, described this posit as “A small mine . . . sometimes called the Bowlder claim. It is notable for bearing coarse gold of high grade in a small quartz vein. The Vein varies in thickness from a few inches to a foot. The quartz is hard and occurs in bowlder-like masses, rounded hard lumps, in which the gold occurs. There is apparently one ore chute or chimney pitching northward. The claim has been worked to a depth of 132 feet by a shaft and most of the pay ore extracted (1886) to that depth.”

Lindgren states that the massive milky-white quartz contains a little pyrite in crystals and stringers.

Text from Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Gold Mining, Arizona Bureau of Mines. Original 1934, revised 1967

Bullwhacker Prospect MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Bullwhacker Prospect
Secondary: Bowlder Claim
Secondary: Boulder Claim


Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver


Location

State: Arizona
County: Yavapai
District: Prescott District


Land Status

Not available


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Type: Underground


Ownership

Owner Name: R. H. Burmister
Years: 1916 -

Owner Name: Herbert Krauss
Years: 1936 -


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1879
Year Last Production: 1936
Discovery Year: 1878
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Mexican Highland


Mineral Deposit Model

Not available


Orebody

Form: CHIMNEY


Structure

Type: R
Description: Foliation In Proterozoic Metamorphic Rocks Trends N-S To Slightly E Of North

Type: L
Description: Veins Parallel Foliation Or Cross-Cut It As Slight Angles


Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Minor


Rocks

Not available


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Silver
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite


Comments

Comment (Geology): DEPOSIT IS QUARTZ VEIN WHICH CUTS PROTEROZOIC CRYSTALLINE ROCKS


References

Reference (Deposit): WILSON, E.D., 1934 , ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING: ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 137 , P. 28

Reference (Deposit): KRIEGER, M.H., 1965 , GEOLOGY OF THE PRESCOTT AND PAULDEN QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 467 , P. 111

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT CLIPPINGS FILE

Reference (Deposit): ABGMT-USBM FILE DATA


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