The Antimony Blossom Prospect is a silver and antimony mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Antimony Blossom Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Antimony Blossom Prospect
Secondary: Antimony Queen
Secondary: Star #10
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Antimony
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Salvador Urrutia
Years: 1956 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: BLEBS, PODS, VEINLETS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Kaolinization, Iron-Staining
Rocks
Name: Metavolcanic Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: MAIN VEIN AVERAGES 3-5 PERCENT ANTIMONY SAMPLE FROM OPEN CUT AVERAGED 23.49 PERCENT SB, 5.40 OUNCES AG PER TON AND NO AU OR SE
Materials
Ore: Stibnite
Comments
Comment (Location): EST. LOCATION, LAWRENCE'S REFERENCE PLACES PROSPECT IN SECTION 1
Comment (Commodity): WHITE ANTIMONY OXIDE OCCURS AS PSEUDOMORPHS AFTER BLADED STIBNITE. YELLOW ANTIMONY OXIDE OCCURS AS PSEUDOMORPHS AFTER SML. SINGLE CRYSTALS OF STIBNITE AND AS POWDERY COATINGS ON QUARTZ AND WALL ROCK ADJACENT OT VEINS
Comment (Workings): TWO SHALLOW SHAFTS AND AN OPEN CUT. SURFACE WORKS FROM DOZER CUTS WITHIN LAST TWO YEARS(NOTE:THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY FOLLOW UP WORK).
Comment (Geology): SURFACE:NORTH TRENDING SHEAR ZONE HAS BEEN EXPOSED FOR ABOUT 70 FT. BY A DOZER CUT IN DOMINATELY MASSIVE CHERT INTERBEDDED WITH SANDSTONE. STIBNITE IN LENTICULAR PODS OR MASSIVELY IN QUARTZ STRINGERS OCCUR WITHIN THE SHEAR ZONE. THE EXAMINER WAS JACK QUADE(4/20/89). THIS IS A SAMPLE SITE #3585(TINGLEY MAP)
References
Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 61;P. 117.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG REPORT 42: GEOCHEM. RECCONNAISSANCE FOR CAMP DOUGLASS AND MOHO MTN. QUAD., MINERAL CO., NV.
Reference (Deposit): STAR # 10 CLAIM; SILVER STAR DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DIST. FILES (TINGLEY)
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.
