USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Delong Mine/Iron King Mine
Unconfirmed Manganese Mixed Underground / Surface 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Jackson Mountains District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Manganese
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Delong Mine, Iron King Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Bottle Creek , 1961
- Adit : Bottle Creek , 1961
View individual source records (5)
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past 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.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Jackson Mountain Mining Co. · Historical operator · 1975
- W. G. Austin Trust · Source-reported owner · 1975
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Apatite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite
- Epidote
- Feldspar
- Hematite
View all 12 reported minerals
- Apatite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- Chlorite
- Epidote
- Feldspar
- Hematite
- Magnetite
- Marcasite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
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 adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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