Mine detail: Sultan Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

35.75167, -115.50001

Resource(M)

Primary:	Zinc, Silver, Lead
Secondary:	Gold, Copper
Ore:	Calamine, Hemimorphite, Hydrozincite
Gangue:	Limonite
Discovery year:	1896

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1910

Geology

Host rock:	Birdsprings;Sultan Limestone
Host type:	Limestone,Dolomite
Associated type:	Tuff
Structure:	Sultan Thrust Fault Cuts Across, Sultan, Monte Cristo, And Bird Spring Fm.; Anticline, Breccia Zone Marks Sultan Thrust Fault; Local Anticline; Normal Faults Cut Thrust Fault.

References

MRDS	M242234
DEP	10111463
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)