USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Riley Mine
Mindat Confirmed Silver Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Potosi District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Silver
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Also known as
- Riley, Dernan Property, Reilly Mine
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 9, T. 38 N., R. 42 E. Tungsten mine in skarn. Workings consist of several pits with underground workings.
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 2 adit symbols
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Sec 9, T. 38 N., R. 42 E. Tungsten mine in skarn. Workings consist of several pits with underground workings.
- 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
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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
- Baryte
- Bismuthinite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
View all 35 reported minerals
- Actinolite
- Adularia
- Arsenopyrite
- Baryte
- Bismuthinite
- Calcite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- commodity:Zinc
- Diopside
- Epidote
- Fluorite
- Galena
- Garnet
- Garnet Group
- Grossular
- K Feldspar
- Malachite
- Molybdenite
- Native Gold
- Native Silver
- Pyrite
- Pyroxene
- Pyroxene Group
- Quartz
- Realgar
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Stibnite
- Wollastonite
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 (1)
- mapped adit symbols (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 47818
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (33)
- underground workings
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