Buckhorn Creek, Arizona

Buckhorn Creek is a porphyry copper project located approximately 25 kilometers east-northeast of Wickenburg, Arizona. The target is a porphyry copper system largely concealed beneath post-mineral cover. Deeper and peripheral structural levels of the system are exposed in basement windows between post-mineral extensional faults. 

The presence of leached cap and mineralized and altered porphyry clasts with local copper oxides in basal post-mineral conglomerates suggests a proximal source concealed beneath volcanic cover rocks on EMX’s property. Felsic porphyry dikes containing quartz-chalcopyrite veins cut the basement rocks adjacent to the post-mineral cover. Detailed surface mapping of alteration and vein density in the basement windows vectors toward the area of post-mineral cover. 

*Nearby mines and deposits provide context for the project, but do not necessarily indicate similar size, styles or grade of mineralization within the project. 

Maps

Geological map with mineral occurrences and mineralized trends. Click to Enlarge
Schematic cross sectional map (B - B Click to Enlarge

Photos

Intense stockwork quartz-K-feldspar(±chalcopyrite) veins with K-feldspar envelopes in adjacent structural blocks to the Buckhorn Creek project. Click to Enlarge