USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Argo Group
Mindat Confirmed Tungsten Underground 1 mapped shaft 7 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: 3 veins 5 unpatented claims, developed by a 30-ft shaft and a 10-ft drift. (exact location uncertain) ; info.src : 1 pub lit; 2 unpub rept Geology: 3 veins; one, a 30-inch wide quartz vein carrying about 2 % scheelite. Rock formation(s): Hap…
Additional documented workings
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Adit
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features -
Drift
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 10 ft.
Mindat -
Shaft
— documented in 1 source record,
noting 30 ft.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 7 adit symbols
- Adit : Battle Creek Ranch , 1972
- Adit : Battle Creek Ranch , 1972
View individual source records (6)
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. -
Drift
· length 10 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: 3 veins 5 unpatented claims, developed by a 30-ft shaft and a 10-ft drift. (exact location uncertain) ; info.src : 1 pub lit… -
Shaft
· depth 30 ft
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: Deposit: 3 veins 5 unpatented claims, developed by a 30-ft shaft and a 10-ft drift. (exact location uncertain) ; info.src : 1 pub lit…
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
Verification
Mindat Confirmed
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why confirmed?
Mindat locality corroborates underground workings.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- J. B. Davis And W. O. Cope · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Tungsten
- Quartz
- Scheelite
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 (7)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 429587
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (4)
- underground workings
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