USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Adelaide Mine
Mindat Confirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Gold Run District
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Adelaide, Adelaide-Star Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 20 T34N R40E Structure: Ne Trending Folds Faults Alteration: Oxidation Deposit: Sulfide replacement of marble and calcareous siltstone. The irregular replacement observed in the trench above the adit appears to follow 'transposed bedding,' (rock…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 3 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features · Mindat -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
- Adit : Goldrun Creek , 1965
- Adit : Goldrun Creek , 1965
- Shaft : Goldrun Creek , 1965
View individual source records (6)
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. -
Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Adit
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: ment of marble and calcareous siltstone. The irregular replacement observed in the trench above the adit appears to follow 'transpose… -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Plant
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
View all 18 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Diopside
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Limestone
- Orthoclase
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Vesuvianite
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59702
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (18)
- underground workings
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