The Nevada Superior is a lead mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,667 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,667 Feet (2,032 Meters)
Commodity: Lead
Lat, Long: 40.6928, -118.54940
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Nevada Superior MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Nevada Superior
Secondary: Superior
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Antelope
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
Type: Fee Ownership
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Rogers, Gus
Company ID: 2601460
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1905
Discovery Year: 1885
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
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Sphalerite
Unknown: Cerussite
Unknown: Smithsonite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Galena
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE MINERALIZED ZONE EXTENDS LATERALLY ALMOST 2 MILES TO THE ANTELOPE MINE. THE AMOUNT OF MINERALIZATION BETWEEN THE SUPERIOR AND ANTELOPE MINES IS UNKNOWN. BOTH MINES APPEAR TO BE ALONG THE SAME VEIN.
Comment (Production): THE LAST YEAR OF PRODUCTION WAS SOMETIME BETWEEN 1935-1942.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): COLUMN ONE REFERS TO OXIDIZED ORE, COLUMN TWO TO SULFIDE ORE WHICH OCCURS AT DEPTH.
References
Reference (Deposit): OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 7-93, P. 95.
Reference (Deposit): MILLER, M.S., 1993, EMIGRANT TRAIL STUDY AREA, U.S. BUREAU
Reference (Deposit): APRIL 1943
Reference (Deposit): WAR MINERALS REPORT, SUPERIOR MINE, PERSHING CO., NEV.,
Reference (Deposit): NEV., NEV. BUMINES BULL. 89, PP 44-48, 1977
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING CO.,
Reference (Deposit): V. 1, PP. 16, 27
Reference (Deposit): MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY, N. NEVADA AND NW UTAH, SUMMARY OF
Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF 1955-1961, SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., 1964
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.
