USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Baker Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Reese River District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Fracutres, Postmineral Joints Alteration: Oxidation Deposit: The veins ore locally reticulate and the ore shoots are irregular and generally less than 100 ft long. Deposit type: Polymetallic veins Ore(s): Joint And Fault Fractures
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 22 shaft symbols
- 7 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- David E And Lynne H. Carly/ Austin Resources Inc. · Historical operator · 1990
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Graphite
View all 21 reported minerals
- Ankerite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Graphite
- Native Silver
- Polybasite
- Proustite
- Psilomelane
- Pyrargyrite
- Pyrite
- Pyrolusite
- Quartz
- Quartz-monzonite
- Rhodochrosite
- Sphalerite
- Stephanite
- Stibnite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (22)
- mapped adit symbols (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60403
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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