USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Elko County
Bullshead
Mindat Confirmed Iron Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Iron
- 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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Drift
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 000 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 4 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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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…
- 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…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_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
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Galena
- Limestone
- Limonite
View all 10 reported minerals
- 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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
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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