USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Adelaide Crown Mines
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: thrust faults, N-trending faults Country rocks strike N-S and dip steeply east and are strongly crumpled. Alteration: silicification Commodity: Ore Materials: gold, silver sulfides, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, molybdenite…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 10 shaft symbols
- 18 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
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=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
- Franco-Nevada Mining Corp, Ltd. · Historical operator · 2001
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Diopside
- Galena
- Garnet
- Gold
View all 40 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Diopside
- Galena
- Garnet
- Gold
- Hematite
- Limonite
- Molybdenite
- Orthoclase
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Sericite
- Sphalerite
- Tetrahedrite
- Vesuvianite
- Calcite
- Chalcedony
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Iron
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Manganese
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Zinc
- Diopside
- Galena
- Garnet Group
- Hematite
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
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 (10)
- mapped adit symbols (18)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429562
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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