USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · White Pine County
Little Bald Mountain Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- White Pine
- Mining district
- Bald Mountain District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: The Bald Mountain district is located in an area of thinned crust along the eastern side of the Late Proterozoic rift that split the North American craton. It is also in the west-central portion of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Antle…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 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=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- New Dynasty Mines (U. S.), Inc. · Historical operator
- Barrick Gold Corp. · Historical operator · 2006
- Northern Dynasty WP Syndicate (Westfield, Whim Creek Cons., and En Nec Int.) · Historical operator
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Clay
- Gold
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Clay
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
View all 13 reported minerals
- Clay
- Gold
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Clay
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Porphyry
- Pyrite
- Quartz-monzonite
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 adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 438775
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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