66 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1941


Largest producers of silver sn the United States sn 1941 2fl order of output—Con


Operator
State
Mining district
Source of silver
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21

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23

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25

26
27

28

29
30
31

32

33

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35

36

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40
41

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43
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48

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Desert Silver, Inc         Emperius Mining Co

Park City Consolidated Mines~ Co. . P
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (Flathead mine).
Lexington Mining Co Magma Copper Co

New Park Mining Co
Combined Metals Reduction Co.
Chief Consolidated Mining Co


Blackhawk Consolidated Mines Co.
W-est Coast Mines, Inc
Park Utah Consolidated Mines Co.
Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation. -
Cactus Mines Co
St. Joseph Lead Co
Ground Hog Unit, American Smelting & Refining' Co.
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (Emma and Ophir)
Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation.
Telluride Mines, Inc. (formerly Veta Mines, Inc.).
American Smeltin? & Refining Co. (Trench Unit).
Philipsburg Mining Co

Combined Metals Reduction Co. (Park-Bingham group).


Lessees of the Tonopah Mining Co. of Nevada.
Shenandoah-Dives Mining Co
Bristol Silver Mines Co
Iron King Mining Co

Summit King Mines, Ltd
Sherman Lead Co
Combined Metals Reduction Co. (West Calumet mine).

DeLamar Mining & Milling Co Florence Mining Co

Golden Queen Mining Co
Sullivan Mining Co. (Star mine).
The Exploration Syndicate, Inc.
South Mountain Mining Co - -
Nevada      

Colorado     

Utah

Montana

 do
Arizona      

Utah
Nevada      

Utah


New Mexico - - -

Nevada      Utah

Arizona      

California    
Missouri
New Mexico - --

Montana

California    

Colorado

Utah

Montana

Utah



Nevada      

Colorado     
Nevada      
Arizona      

Nevada      
Idaho
Utah


Idaho

Montana~    

California
Idaho

New Mexico - -Idaho
Silver Peak        

Creede

Blue Ledge        

Hog Heaven       

Montana (Neihart) - Pioneer

Park City

Pioche

Tintic

Mogollon

Barrett Springs     

Park City

Warren

Mojave

Southeastern Missouri

Central

Summit Valley or. Butte.

Grass Valley-Nevada City.

Upper San MigueL - - -

Harshaw

Flint Creek

West Mountaln    

Tonopah

Animas

Jack Rabbit       

Big Bug

Sand Springs      

Lelande

Rush Valley       

Carson

Montana (Neihart) - - -

Mojave

Hunter

Steeple Rock

South Mountaln
Dry and siliceous ore. Dry and siliceous silver ore.
Zinc-lead ore.

Dry and siliceous silver ore, lead ore.
Do.
Copper ore, zinc-copper ore.
Zinc-lead ore.
Do.

Dry and siliceous goldsilver ore, zinc-lead ore, lead ore.
Dry and siliceous goldsilver ore.
Dry and siliceous ore. Zinc-lead ore, lead ore.

Copper ore, zinc-lead ore.
Dry and siliceous ore. Lead ore. Zinc-lead ore, lead ore, copper ore.
Zinc-lead ore, manganese-zinc-lead ore.
Dry and siliceous ore.

Dry and siliceous goldsilver ore.
Zinc-lead ore.

Dry and siliceous goldsilver ore.
Zinc-lead ore, dry and siliceous gold ore, dry and siliceous gold-silver
ore.
Dry and siliceous ore.

Zinc-lead ore.
Lead ore.
Zine-lead ore, dry and siliceous gold-silver ore. Dry and siliceous ore.
Lead ore. Zinc-lead ore, lead ore, dry and siliceous goldsilver ore.
Dry and siliceous goldsilver ore.
Dry and siliceous silver ore.
Dry and siliceous ore. Zinc-lead ore.

Dry and siliceous gold. silver ore.
Zinc ore, copper ore.








































NUMBER OF MINES


 ' The' following table indicates the number of mines that procEucect gold
and silver in 1940 and 1941. The placers are those in which gold and silver
in' natural alloy and, in a few placers, platinum are recovered from gravel
and sand, whether by hand washing, sluicing, hydrauiicking, drifting (in
frozen ground or ancient buried river channels), or dredging. The lode mines
are those yielding gold and silver from ore as distinguished from gravel,
mainly from under-.