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Sultan Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111463
MRDS ID M242234
Record type Site
Current site name Sultan Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.50001, 35.75167 (WGS84)
Elevation 1244
Relative position 6.5 MILES SW OF GOODSPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodsprings(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesquite Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 025S 058E 20 SW4 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calamine Ore
Hemimorphite Ore
Hydrozincite Ore
Limonite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ZN ORE CONTAINED 28-42% ZN, 2-7% PB, 6-30 OZ AG/TON & 3-13% INSOLUBLE. PB ORE CONTAINED 30-60% PB, 6-14% ZN, 10-30 OZ AG/TON & 1-3% INSOLUBLE. GROSS VALUE $200,000-NEAT $155,000 (1931).

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 72
USGS model code 19a
Deposit model name Polymetallic replacement
Mark3 model number 47

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Birdsprings;Sultan Limestone
    Rock description Birdsprings;Sultan Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.50001, 35.75167
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sultan Thrust Fault Cuts Across, Sultan, Monte Cristo, And Bird Spring Fm.; Anticline
Type of structure Local
Structure description Breccia Zone Marks Sultan Thrust Fault; Local Anticline; Normal Faults Cut Thrust Fault.

Ore body information

  • Width 243.84M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone Permeability

Comments on the geologic information

  • BRECCIA WAS FORMED ALONG A THRUST FAULT AND WAS LATER TILTED, NOW APPEARING TO BE NEAR VERTICLE. SOURCE OF TUFFS IS THOUGH TO BE SULTAN CRATER (MIO) AND WERE IMPLACED AFTER TILTING OCCURED. SLIGHTLY ANOMALOUS RADIO ACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LIMONITE, HYDROZINLITE, AND CO MINERALS, BACKGROUND = 10 CPS, HIGH = 50 CPS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1896
Discoverer W.R. Sloan
Year of first production 1910

Mining district

District name Goodsprings District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Henry Robbins
    First year 1931

Production statistics

  • Year 1918
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^7 Oz Au
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 221g/mt
  • Year 1919
    Material CON
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^ 9,884 Oz Ag, 1,200 Lb Cu, 193,000 Lb Pb, 314,000 Lb Zn.
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Zinc Zinc 142428mt
    Lead Lead 87543.32mt
    Trace Copper Copper 544.31mt
    Trace Conc. Silver Silver 312600g
  • Year 1925
    Material CON
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^2 Oz Au, 4,888 Oz Ag,
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Ore Silver Silver 154600g
    Major Conc. Gold Gold 63.25g
  • Year 1937
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^4,042 Oz Ag
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Ore Silver Silver 127800g
  • Year 1941
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^ 109,000 Lb Pb.
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Lead Lead 49441.56mt
  • Year 1942
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^1 Oz Au
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Gold Gold 31.62g
  • Year 1944
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^ 2,163 Oz Ag
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Ore Silver Silver 68370g
  • Year 1945
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^ 56,900 Lb Pb., 100 Lb Co
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Cobalt Cobalt 45.35mt
    Lead Lead 25809.4mt
  • Year 1946
    Material ORE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^20,000 Lb Pb, 68,500 Lb Zn
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Zinc Zinc 31071.07mt
    Lead Lead 9071.84mt
  • Year 1952
    Period 1910-1952
    Material ZN
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^.41 Oz Au, 3,439 Oz Ag, 205,914 Lb Pb.
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Lead Lead 93401.01mt
    Silver Silver 97493g
    Major Gold Gold 12.97g

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION WAS INTERMITTENT BETWEEN 1910 AND 1952.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 53.34M
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL SHAFTS, ADITS, CROSSCUTS, SURFACE TRENCHES, PITS, INCLINES

Comments on development

  • DRY CONCENTRATING MILL WAS ERECTED 1916. GREAT DEAL OF WORK WAS DONE 1917-1919; THEN SECOND PERIOD OF MINING 1937-1946.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LONGWELL, C.R., 1965, GEOL. AND MIN. DEP. OF CLARK CO., NEV., NBMG, BULL 62, PG. 197,

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, 1931, GEOL AND MIN DEP. OF GOOD SPRINGS QUAD., NEV, USGS, PP. 162, PG. 155-156

  • Deposit

    HEWITT, 1956, GEOL AND MIN RES. OF IVANPAH QUAD, NEV, USGS PP 275, PG 154.

  • Deposit

    ALBRITTON, C.C., 1954, GEOL. CONTROLS OF PB-ZN DEP. GOODSPRINGS DIS., NEV., USGS BULL 1010, PG. 71-81

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MIN. OCC. IN NEV., NBMG, BULL 81, P G. 33.

  • Production

    LONGWELL ET AL., 1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE OCCURED ALONG THRUST FAULT, AND IN TABULAR BODIES ALONG HIGH ANGLE FAULTS WHICH CUT BRECCIA. ORE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH N30-45W TRENDING, 60-90 NE DIPPING FRACTURES. ORE WAS MINED FROM 4 SHOOTS. THE LARGEST SHOOT WAS FARTHEST SOUTH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAR-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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