PROJECTS
SOUTHERN NEVADA PROPERTIES
Bull Run Gold Alliance projects are 100% controlled by an Alliance member of the surface and mineral rights, with Net Profit Royalty (NPR) held by other various Bull Run Gold Alliance members on the southern Nevada properties. Located about 30 minutes south of Las Vegas Nevada in Clark County. Good roads and excellent access to the properties as well as all the needed infrastructure and skilled personal are close-by.
The projects are in two separate mining districts, the Eldorado Canyon and the Alunite Districts.
The "Lucky Jett Project" of properties are located in the Eldorado Canyon Mining District, history of the district began with the discovery and mining of gold around 1857, and is one of the oldest districts in Nevada. Between 1862 and 1897 Southwestern Mining Company dominated the district.
Area production records from 1907 - 1924 show 84,010 tons mined with 32,070 ounces gold, 724,568 ounces silver, 23,483 lbs. lead and small amount of copper recovered. Ore averaged 0.38 opt (11.8) grams) gold, 8.6 opt (267.5 grams) silver per ton.
Production from 1925 - 1961 were, 496,245 tons, 68,546 ounces gold, 1,634,772 ounces silver, and 145,413 lbs. lead. Average ore grade of 0.138 opt (4.29 grams) gold per ton, 3.29 opt (102.3 grams) silver per ton. (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 62).
Ransome (1907 p. 65) estimates production from 1861 to 1906 to be upwards of $5,000,000.00, (At $20.00 per ounce gold prices).
Other small mining operations took place into the 1980's, but production records are not known.
There are several shafts on the Lucky Jett properties, one shaft showing several hundred feet of underground workings, indicated from the large waste dump. Open cuts and test pits follow a mineralized zone for about 800 feet. Nearly 3000 feet of mineralization occurs on the properties, numerous test pits and excavations expose these zones. Samples from these zones have been crushed and tested, showing free native gold in the test milled samples.
In the 1970's and 80's a small mining and milling operation was recovering gold from open cuts and trenching. Total gold recovered is unknown, but operations were said to be using gravity concentrating and a small leach pad system. Some grab samples from the surface showed good gold when crushed and panned.
On the North Western part of the properties, is an area with several oxidized veins showing on the surface. Shafts, open cuts and test pits expose these veins. Some of these veins are running very high grade in gold. In the 1980's a small mining and milling operation was extracting gold ore and processing in a gravity mill to recover the gold. Total gold production is unknown, but locals state it was sizable.
In recent years, limited production has removed small tonnage of ore with good results.
Test milling by Bull Run Gold Alliance has shown the ore from two of the veins containing values of 0.20, 0.81 and 2.45 and ounces gold per ton. This ore was easy milling and the gold is free milling native gold, requiring only water for extraction. No sulfides were noted in the concentrates. Chemicals may not be required in our milling process. All test and bulk milling was performed by contract at a private custom test mill in Henderson. Bull Run Gold Alliance will consider taking a long term lease on this custom test mill, for it is located on private property and permitting will not be required for continued testing and high grade milling operations. Future upgrades will be required to increase milling capacity from testing, to small scale production. All the veins are open at depth and strike length.
Approximately 5 miles North West is the " Gold West Project" located in the Alunite mining district. Reportedly, in 1908 R. T. Hill discovered gold and alunite in this district. Attempts to mine the gold and alunite proved unsuccessful at the time. In 1915 intermittent operations by the Quo Vadis Mining Co. made several shipments of very high grade ore of free milling gold.
Total production from the district is unknown, but in the Mineral Yearbook for 1936 shows production of 925 ounces gold, 749 ounces silver and 1,832 lbs. lead for this district.
On the Gold West property it consist of 2 veins running parallel to each other, separated by about 25 feet apart. Two shafts are present, one about 10 feet in depth, and the other about 35 feet deep. Each vein is about 1 to 3 feet thick. Samples taken from the surface dumps have been milled and panned, showing over .15 ounce per ton in gold. A chip sample taken about 30 feet south along the strike of the vein from the deeper shaft tested about 0.1 ounces gold per ton.
Operations for 2023 will be continued exploration along the strike and depth of the mineralized zones, and removing and milling high grade gold ores from both projects.
Gold crossing the concentrating table from bulk testing. The results are excellent.