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