USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Mineral County
Broken Hills Mine
Unconfirmed Silver Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Mineral
- Mining district
- Broken Hills District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Lerchen Property
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Source classification: Underground operation documented
Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- George M. Lerchen And Associates · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Bindheimite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Proustite
View all 10 reported minerals
- Chalcopyrite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Argentite
- Bindheimite
- Cerargyrite
- Galena
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Sphalerite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
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