USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lander County
Morris and Caple Mine
Source Corroborated Silver Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 6 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lander
- Mining district
- Reese River District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Morris and Cable Tunnel
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 6 adit symbols
- Adit : Yankee Blade , 1969
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). 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
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Polybasite
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Pyrite
- Argentite
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcopyrite
- Galena
- Polybasite
- Proustite
- Pyrargyrite
- Silver
- 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 (2)
- mapped adit symbols (6)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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