The Dead Horse is a lead and silver mine located in Elko county, Nevada.
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Dead Horse MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dead Horse
Secondary: Silver Butte
Secondary: Ball Mt. Lead
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Zinc
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Mud Springs (Dead Horse Medicine Springs Butte Valley)
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Golden Pipe Exploration Co
Years: 1978 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1915
Discovery Year: 1911
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic veins
Orebody
Form: TABULAR, POCKETS
Structure
Type: L
Description: Shear Zones
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Lead
Ore: Anglesite
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): SILVER BUTTE CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY WAS INCORPORATED ABOUT 1923 TO CONSOLIDATE THE NEVADA DIVIDEND M. COMPANY PROPERTY AND THE BUTTE VALLEY MINING COMPANY. THIS GROUP WAS OWNED BY SALT LAKE CITY INVESTORS. THE MINE WAS DEVELOPED BY A 2 COMPARTMENT, 600 FT VERTICAL SHAFT WITH 6 LEVELS, AND IN ALL ABOUT 4000 FT OF WORKINGS; THERE ARE OTHER SHALLOW WORKINGS. THE MINE AND MILL WERE OPERATING AGAIN IN 1951 ON THEIR 19 LODE CLAIMS, UNDER LEASE TO THE SILVER BUTTE CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. THE MILL WAS LOCATED AT MEDICINE SPRINGS, 6 MILES WEST OF THE SILVER BUTTE (DEAD HORSE) MINE. THIS MINE WAS THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCER IN THE DISTRICT, AND IS CREDITED WITH A SMALL PRODUCTION THE MILL INSTALLED IN 1950 AT MEDICINE SPRINGS WAS A 60 TON WET CONCENTRATING PLANT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Development): 5 CLAIMS; FIRST DISCOVERIES IN THE DISTRICT WERE IN 1910. IT WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY THE NEVADA DIVIDEND MINING CO., WITH SOME OF THE ORE RUNNING AS HIGH AS 100 OZ AG AND 3 OZ. AU. A 100-TON FLOTATION MILL WAS BUILT IN 1929; ORE AVERAGED 7-20% PB, THE MINE AND MILL WERE ACTIVE IN 1935, AND IN 1937, IT WAS BEING RENOVATED TO START WORK AGAIN. THE SILVER BUTTE CONSOLIDATED MINING CO. WAS INCORPORATED ABOUT 1923, CONSOLIDATING THE NEVADA DIVIDEND AND THE BUTTE VALLEY MINING CO'S. THE MINE WAS THEN DEVELOPED BY A 2. COMPARTMENT 600 FT. VERTICAL SHAFT WITH 6 LEVELS AND TOTAL OF 4000 FT. OF WORKINGS. THE MINE AND MILL WERE OPERATING AGAIN IN 1951 ON THEIR 19 LODE CLAIMS, UNDER LEASE TO SILVER BUTTE MINING CO. THIS MINE WAS THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCER IN THE DISTRICT.
Comment (Deposit): VEIN/REPLACEMENT OF LIMESTONE ALONG FRACTURES
Comment (Workings): 6-LEVEL SHAFT AND ASSOCIATED WORKINGS.
Comment (Geology): BARITE IS ABUNDANT NEAR THE SMALL LEAD POCKETS - AS LENSES
Comment (Deposit): THE DEAD HORSE OR SILVER BUTTE MINE OF 5 CLAIMS IS LOCATEDING SADDLE SE OF A SMALL BUTTE OT THE N END OF THE RUBY HILLS. FIRST DISCUERIES IN THE DISTRICT WERE IN 1910, AND THE DEAD HORSE MINE WAS LOCATED IN 1910, AND THE DEAD HORSE MINE WAS LOCATED IN 1911. THE ORE FOLLOWS A 2-3 FT WIDE FRACTURE, THAT HAS A STRIKE LENGTH OF 1500 FT (N35E). THE GANGUE IS CONIPOSED OF CALCITE, QUARTZ, AND BANTE WITH US/UE IN POCKETS OF LEAD CARBENTION AND SULPHATES, ON THE HASIGING FUENE IS A FOOT OF LEDGE MAKRIAL CARRYING POCKETS AND STRINGERS OF GOLENA GURROUNDED BY ANGLESITE AND CERUSITE. THE FIRST SHIPMENT OF ORE WAS MADE IN 1915 TO THE USSR SMELTER IN SALT LAKE CITY. IT WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY THE NEVADA DIVIDEND MINING COMPANY WITH SOME OF THE ORE RUNNING AS HIGH AS 100 OZ AG AND 3 OZ AU. A 100 TON FLOTATION MILL WAS BUILT IN 1929 AND WAS IN OPERATION IN SEPTEMBER 1929. THE ORE AVERAGED 7-20% PB. THE MINE AND MILL WERE ACTIVE IN 1935. IN 1937 IT WAS BEING RENOVATED TO START WORK AGAIN. THE
References
Reference (Deposit): GRANGER, ET ALL, (1957) GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, NBM. BULL. 54.
Reference (Deposit): HILL, JAMES M, (1916), NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, USGS BULL 648
Reference (Deposit): SMITH, ROSCOE M., MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY NEVADA, USGS OPEN FILE REPORT 1976-56
Reference (Deposit): MINES REGISTER 1937
Reference (Deposit): HUNT, S.F. (1936) MINING GEOLOGY OUTLINED: P. MSM REPRINT
Reference (Production): GRANGER, A. ET AL., (1957)
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.
