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Nevada · Humboldt County

Ashdown Mine Gold-Molybdenum Project

Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface

Key facts

State
Nevada
County
Humboldt
Mining district
Warm Springs District
Development status
Producer
Mine type
Mixed underground / surface
Primary commodity
Gold
Verification
Unconfirmed

Also known as

  • Ashdown Mine, Vicksburg Mine, Curley Luck gold property

Mine Location

Approximate Area

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Documented underground workings

Source classification: Underground operation documented

Specific physical workings are not yet documented in discrete records.

Historical mapped workings

USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.

  • 4 shaft symbols
  • 13 adit symbols
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.

  • Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
  • MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): 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.

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History & operations

Historical record

  • Development status: Producer

Operators / organizations

  • Golden Phoenix Minerals, Inc. · Historical operator · 2005
  • PRS Enterprises · Historical operator · 2005
  • Win-Eldrich Mines Limited · Historical operator · 2005

Commodities & minerals

Reported minerals

  • Quartz
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Cinnabar
  • Copper
  • Galena
  • Gold
  • Mercury
View all 11 reported minerals
  • Quartz
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Cinnabar
  • Copper
  • Galena
  • Gold
  • Mercury
  • Molybdenite
  • Pyrite
  • Tetrahedrite

Access & recent conditions

Land
unknown

Community reports

No community field reports yet.

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Sources & evidence

USGS Mineral Resources Data System

Type: Historical mine record

Supports:

  • mine identity
  • development status
  • commodities
  • underground eligibility evidence

USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features

Type: Historical mapped physical features

Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6

Supports:

  • mapped shaft symbols (4)
  • mapped adit symbols (13)

Historical mapped features may no longer exist.

Dataset information

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