USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Eureka County
Carlin/Pete/Lantern Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Eureka
- Mining district
- Carlin Trend
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
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 (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface, Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): 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: Plant
Operators / organizations
- Newmont Gold Co. (Newmont Mining Corp.) · Historical operator · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Galena
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Pyrite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Barite
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Galena
- Gold
- Kaolinite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Sericite
- Stibnite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
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