The Babcock Lead Prospect is a lead mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Babcock Lead Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Babcock Lead Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Hawthorne 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: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: 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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Galena
Ore: Cerussite
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): BEST SHOWING OF ORE IS A 6 INCH VEIN TRACEABLE FOR ABOUT 20 FEET. 200 FEET VERTICALLY BELOW (TO SOUTH) IN CANYON ORE OCCURS IN AN EN ECHELON STRUCTURE. A FEW NARROW BUNCHES OF ORE 5 INCHES OR LESS WIDE OCCURS HERE. THE ORE UNDERGROUND MAY OR MAY NOT BE ON THE SAME VEIN OR SHEAR EXPOSED ON THE SURFACE.
Comment (Location): ON OR ADJACENT TO THE LUCKY BOY CLAIMS
Comment (Workings): TUNNEL CUTS EN ECHELON STRUCTURE WITH 300 FEET OF DRIFTING. A RAISE 100 FEET NW OF MAIN STRUCTURE CONNECTS WITH A SHAFT ON THE SURFACE.
Comment (Deposit): PROSPECT LOCATED ON NORTH SIDE OF SHARP CANYON ALONG A POWER LINE. ; INFO.SRC : 2 UNPUB REPT
References
Reference (Deposit): ANONYMOUS UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON BABCOCK LEAD PROSPEC
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.
