USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Pershing County
Auburn Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Pershing
- Mining district
- Sierra
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Auburn
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 6 T33N R37E Structure: Nne-Trending Fault And Shear Zones Deposit: Developed by six adits, total workings 3500 feet. ; info.src : 1 pub lit; 2 unpub rept; 3 field observ milky quartz veins generally less than 30 cm wide cut phyllite and conglomer…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 3500 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 16 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
· length 3500 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Sec 6 T33N R37E Structure: Nne-Trending Fault And Shear Zones Deposit: Developed by six adits, total workings 3500 feet. ; info.src :…
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Conglomerate
View all 19 reported minerals
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Conglomerate
- Galena
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Phyllite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
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 (16)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 58711
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (19)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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