Field Collecting: Wickenburg Area
Bullard Copper Mine
Yavapai County, AZ
Harcuvar Mountains

(secondary copper minerals)
NOTE:  Please DO NOT ask for directions to the collecting locations below!  Most, if not all, of this information can be obtained from the following guide books."Rock Collecting near Lordsburg, New Mexico" by Dave Millis
Can be purchased at the Border Rock Shop, 980 East Motel Drive, Lordsburg, NM  88045  (505)542-3724
"Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona" by Neil Bearce
Can be purchased on Amazon.com
The Bullard Mine on Smith peak.
                    [2006]

  Collecting secondary copper minerals in the lower pit tailing piles.
                         [2006]

Upper mine audits and tailings.
(Notice the holes and tailing piles on the side of the hill.)
 [2006]

The view from near the top.  Notice the exposed seams!

Near the top of the hill - ledge on the right where Steve Glass has started to work some seam material.
[2006]


A complete view of the ledge area where steve is working.
This is a composite of two photographs.  The rock in the upper right and lower left portions of the picture were copied to fill in the blank areas.  It was impossible to get far enough away to take a complete picture of the ledge.
 [2006]

Nice exposure. . . Chrysocolla
                         [2006]

Russ and Roger reducing a boulder.

Chrysocolla
[2006]

Another view from the Ballard Mine...
NOTE:  Please DO NOT ask for directions to this collecting location!  Most, if not all, of this information can be obtained from the following guide books. "Rock Collecting near Lordsburg, New Mexico"
by Dave Millis

Can be purchased at the Border Rock Shop, 980 East Motel Drive, Lordsburg, NM  88045  (505)542-3724
"Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona"
by Neil Bearce

Can be purchased on Amazon.com
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