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California

Kern County

Baltic Mine : (35.20.58N by 117.38.19W - #3) (Gold & Tungsten)

Coordinates are for the main entrance of this underground, past producer. There is a “development dig” associated with the delineation of the ore body of the producing mine at 35.21.00N by 117.38.21W.

See the Rand Mining District for more details.

Bulletin 193, California Division of Mines and Geology, 1998, p167 : This mine produced approximately $50,000 in gold, at $35 per troy ounce or less.

Tungsten Mines in the US, MR-25, by D.M. Lemmon & O.L. Tweto, 1962 : The Baltic Mine is located about 1½ miles southeast of Randsburg. Mine is thought to have been be included in a group of mines operated by the Summit Lime Company, which included the Pine Tree Mine, the Wild Cat Mine, B.C. Mine, BCM Mines, and the Nixon Mine. Ore materials in these mines included gold and tungsten, as scheelite, and traces of copper in quartz-carbonate veinlets in a host rock of granite. No gold or tungsten production is known. The mine appears on some versions of the 1:250,000 scale USGS Trona map.