The Blue Dick Antimony Mine is a antimony and silver mine located in Lander county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Blue Dick Antimony Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Blue Dick Antimony Mine
Secondary: Kirk
Secondary: Harmon
Commodity
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Tertiary: Selenium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Lander
District: Hilltop District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Simple Sb (veins, pods, etc)
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Roberts Mtns Thrust At Depth
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Stibnite
Comments
Comment (Production): $5000 - $100,000 IN SB FROM 60 TONS OF METAL
Comment (Deposit): ABOUT 1900, 1000 TONS ANTIMONY ORE WAS TREATED LOCALLY FOR ITS SILVER. 100 TONS OF SORTED ORE YIELDING 60% ANTIMONY WAS SHIPPED DURING WW I. DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF A 140-FT ADIT AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF OTHER WORKINGS. IN 1941, 12 TONS SB ORE WERE SHIPPED TO THE METAL RESERVE BOARD STOCKPILE AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Geology): VEIN ASSOCIATED WITH 6 INCH COAL SEAM: BLEBS, CRYSTALS, PORS & VEINLETS OF STIBINTE IN QTZ.
Comment (Deposit): A VEIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH A 6-INCH COAL SEAM WITH BLEBS, CRYSTALS, PODS, AND VEINLETS OF STIBNITE IN QUARTZ
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF A 140-FT ADIT AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF OTHER WORKINGS.
Comment (Location): N & S SIDES OF WEST FORK ROCK CREEK
References
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W. O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN LANDER CO., NEV.; USBM INFO. CIRC. 7043
Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, E. F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 61.
Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H. K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER CO., NEV.; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 885
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
