USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Bullshead Mine
Mindat Confirmed Lead Underground 2 mapped shafts 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Mining district
- Spruce Mountain
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Lead
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: Vein; kaolimzed rhyolite porphyry the bullshead mine has about 6,000 ft of underground workings, mostly drifts, on both sides of the canyon. In 1917 a 50-ton smelter was built and worked seasonally. In 1918 this mine was one of the chief produ…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Drift
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 000 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Spruce Mountain , 1986
View individual source records (5)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Drift
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ; kaolimzed rhyolite porphyry the bullshead mine has about 6,000 ft of underground workings, mostly drifts, on both sides of the cany…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: Vein; kaolimzed rhyolite porphyry the bullshead mine has about 6,000 ft of underground workings, mostly drifts, on both sides of the canyon. In 1917 a 50-ton smelte…
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Galena
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limestone
View all 11 reported minerals
- Galena
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Muscovite
- Sericite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (2)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 41623
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (10)
- underground workings
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