The Sultan Mine is a lead, zinc, and silver mine located in Clark county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,081 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,081 Feet (1,244 Meters)
Commodity: Lead, Zinc, Silver
Lat, Long: 35.75167, -115.49917
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Sultan Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sultan Mine
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Primary: Zinc
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Clark
District: Goodsprings District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Henry Robbins
Years: 1931 -
Production
Year: 1919
Material type: CON
Description: Ap_Grade: ^ 9,884 Oz Ag, 1,200 Lb Cu, 193,000 Lb Pb, 314,000 Lb Zn.
Year: 1946
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^20,000 Lb Pb, 68,500 Lb Zn
Year: 1942
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^1 Oz Au
Year: 1941
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^ 109,000 Lb Pb.
Year: 1937
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^4,042 Oz Ag
Year: 1918
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^7 Oz Au
Year: 1925
Material type: CON
Description: Ap_Grade: ^2 Oz Au, 4,888 Oz Ag,
Year: 1952
Time Period: 1910-1952
Material type: ZN
Description: Cp_Grade: ^.41 Oz Au, 3,439 Oz Ag, 205,914 Lb Pb.
Year: 1945
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^ 56,900 Lb Pb., 100 Lb Co
Year: 1944
Material type: ORE
Description: Ap_Grade: ^ 2,163 Oz Ag
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1910
Discovery Year: 1896
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Physiographic Detail: Spring Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Polymetallic replacement
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Sultan Thrust Fault Cuts Across, Sultan, Monte Cristo, And Bird Spring Fm.; Anticline
Type: L
Description: Breccia Zone Marks Sultan Thrust Fault; Local Anticline; Normal Faults Cut Thrust Fault.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Tuff
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ZN ORE CONTAINED 28-42% ZN, 2-7% PB, 6-30 OZ AG/TON & 3-13% INSOLUBLE. PB ORE CONTAINED 30-60% PB, 6-14% ZN, 10-30 OZ AG/TON & 1-3% INSOLUBLE. GROSS VALUE $200,000-NEAT $155,000 (1931).
Materials
Ore: Hydrozincite
Ore: Hemimorphite
Ore: Calamine
Gangue: Limonite
Comments
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
Comment (Deposit): ORE OCCURED ALONG THRUST FAULT, AND IN TABULAR BODIES ALONG HIGH ANGLE FAULTS WHICH CUT BRECCIA. ORE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH N30-45W TRENDING, 60-90 NE DIPPING FRACTURES. ORE WAS MINED FROM 4 SHOOTS. THE LARGEST SHOOT WAS FARTHEST SOUTH.
Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SHAFTS, ADITS, CROSSCUTS, SURFACE TRENCHES, PITS, INCLINES
Comment (Geology): BRECCIA WAS FORMED ALONG A THRUST FAULT AND WAS LATER TILTED, NOW APPEARING TO BE NEAR VERTICLE. SOURCE OF TUFFS IS THOUGH TO BE SULTAN CRATER (MIO) AND WERE IMPLACED AFTER TILTING OCCURED. SLIGHTLY ANOMALOUS RADIO ACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LIMONITE, HYDROZINLITE, AND CO MINERALS, BACKGROUND = 10 CPS, HIGH = 50 CPS.
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION WAS INTERMITTENT BETWEEN 1910 AND 1952.
Comment (Development): DRY CONCENTRATING MILL WAS ERECTED 1916. GREAT DEAL OF WORK WAS DONE 1917-1919; THEN SECOND PERIOD OF MINING 1937-1946.
References
Reference (Deposit): ALBRITTON, C.C., 1954, GEOL. CONTROLS OF PB-ZN DEP. GOODSPRINGS DIS., NEV., USGS BULL 1010, PG. 71-81
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MIN. OCC. IN NEV., NBMG, BULL 81, P G. 33.
Reference (Production): LONGWELL ET AL., 1965
Reference (Deposit): LONGWELL, C.R., 1965, GEOL. AND MIN. DEP. OF CLARK CO., NEV., NBMG, BULL 62, PG. 197,
Reference (Deposit): HEWITT, 1931, GEOL AND MIN DEP. OF GOOD SPRINGS QUAD., NEV, USGS, PP. 162, PG. 155-156
Reference (Deposit): HEWITT, 1956, GEOL AND MIN RES. OF IVANPAH QUAD, NEV, USGS PP 275, PG 154.
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.
