Hard Luck-Pradier Mine

The Hard Luck-Pradier Mine is a antimony mine located in Lander county, Nevada at an elevation of 8,360 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Hard Luck-Pradier Mine
Secondary: Hard Luck-Pradier
Secondary: Romano
Secondary: Big Creek
Secondary: Pradier
Secondary: Prater

Commodity

Primary: Antimony
Secondary: Silver

Location

State: Nevada
County: Lander
District: Big Creek District

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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: Patented

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Big Creek Mining And Milling Co.
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1958

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1936
Discovery Year: 1935
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

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: Tetrahedrite
Unknown: Stibnite
Unknown: Malachite
Unknown: Azurite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): GENERAL LOCATION: ABOUT 22 KM S OF AUSTIN GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY: SMALL NO MILL ABOUT 68 T ANTIMONY METAL PRODUCED. SEE BRAY-BEULAH MINE (0320150192) FOR INFORMATION ON THIS MINE.

Comment (Geology): STIBNITE OCCURS AS BLEBS,SMALL PODS AND SINGLE CRYSTALS.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): NO PUBLISHED RESERVE-RESOURCE INFORMATION

References

Reference (Deposit): TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reference (Deposit): PART OF THE TOIYABE RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS

Reference (Deposit): MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA. NEVADA BUREAU

Reference (Deposit): STEWART, J. H., E. H. MCKEE, AND H. K. STAGER. GEOLOGY AND

Reference (Deposit): OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 61, 1963, P. 103-108.

Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, E. F. ANTIMONY DEPOSITS IN NEVADA. NEVADA BUREAU

Reference (Deposit): UNPUBLISHED REPORT, AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT

Reference (Deposit): OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 88, 1977, P. 71-72.

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.