517The Mineral Industry of Nevada 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement between the
Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, and the Nevada
Bureau of Mines for collecting information on all minerals except fuels.

 
 
By L E. Davis1 
 
 
 Labor strikes were largely responsible for the decline in value of Nevada's
mineral production in 1967 to about $91 million, the lowest since 1964. Strikes
which began in mid-July had shut down all copper production by September
and halted lead-zinc mining before yearend. The drop in metal production
value alone was over $19 million. A depressed construction industry reduced
the value of the total mineral output another $2 million. Of the 29 metal
and mineral corn- 
modities produced in 1967—10 were metal, 17 nonmetallic, and two mineral
fuel. Only the output of two metals (gold and mercury) and six nonmetallic
minerals (' barite, diatomite, lime, pumice and volcanic cinder, salt, and
sand and gravel) increased compared with that of 1966. No uranium or sulfur
ores were mined during the year, and no geothermal activity was reported.

 
 1 Physical scientist, Bureau of Mines, San Francisco, Calif. 
 
Table 1.—Mineral production in Nevada 1 
1966 
Mineral — 
 
1967 
 
Quantity 
Value 
(thousands) 
Quantity 
Value 
(thousands) 
Antimony ore and concentrate (content) short tons -  68 
Barite thousand short tons. 139 
$63 
933 
53 
154 
$35 
923 
Copper (recoverable content of ores, etc.)short tOns... 78,720Gem stones
NA 
56,946 
 100 
50,771 NA 
38,815 
 100 
Gold (recoverable content of ores, etc.)_troy ounces - 366,903 
12,842 
434,993 
15,225 
Gypsum thousandshorttons.. 594 
Iron ore (usable)_ - thousand long tons, gross weight - 1,000Lead (recoverable
content of ores, etc.).. short tons - 3,581Mercury 76-pound flasks.. 3,355Perlite
short tons..  W 
2,023 
4,931 
1,083 
1,482 
 W 
 409 
 641 
1,500 
4,703 
10,712 
1,412 
2,858 
 420 
2,301 
 94 
Petroleum (crude) thousand 42-gallon barrels - 307 
Pumice, pumicite, and volcanic cinder 
 thousand short tons - 55 
W 
 
190 
279 
~ 
105 
W 
 
236 
Sand and gravel do~. 9,085 
Silver (recoverable content of ores, etc.) 
 thousand troy ounces - 867Stone thousandshorttons..  2,002Talc and soapstone
short tons... 4,715Zinc (recoverable content of ores, etc.)       do. - -
- 5,827Value of items that cannot be disclosed: Brucite, ce 
9,134 
 
1,122 
2,519 
 24 
1,690 
10,166 
 
 566 
1,375 
2,096 
3,035 
8,644 
 877 
2,145 
 17 
 840 
ment, clays, diatomite, fluorspar, lime, lithium minerals, magnesite, molybdenum
concentrates (content), peat, salt, tungsten concentrate, uranium ore (1966),
and values indicated by symbol W             XX 
r 17,555 
XX 
15,941 
Total XXTotal 1957—59 constant dollars XX 
r 112,637 
r 96,812 
XX 
XX 
90,883 
77,386 
 P Preliminary. r Revised. NA Not available. W Withheld to avoid disclosing
individual company confidential data. 
XX Not applicable. 
 1 Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption by producers).