USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Linka Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface 6 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Garnetite Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Located in sec. 12, T17N, R45½E, MDM. Structure: Roberts Mountains Thrust Deposit: The Linka consists of 3 separate contiguous scheelite-hearing tactite occurrences. The Linka deposit is near vertical, paralleling the intrusive contact tungsten w…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 6 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Spencer Hot Springs , 1960
- Shaft : Spencer Hot Springs , 1989
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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
- Utah International, Inc. · Historical operator
- Peer, Gale · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Hyalite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Actinolite
- Albite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Hyalite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Actinolite
- Albite
- Allophane
- Andradite
- Apatite
- Bismutite
- Calcite
- Cerussite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- Chrysocolla
- Clinobisvanite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Tungsten
- Diopside
- Duhamelite
- Epidote
- Eulytine
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Grossular
- Gypsum
- Hematite
- Hyalite
- Junoite
- Mimetite
- Molybdenite
- Mottramite
- Opal
- Opal-AN
- Pottsite
- Powellite
- Pyrite
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 (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3897
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (34)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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