USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Ashdown Property
Unconfirmed Molybdenum Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Molybdenum
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Ashdown MineAshdown
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
12.5 miles south of Denio. Commodity: In 1954, 32 tons ore was reported to contain about 1.0 % wo3, with no other details on the deposit or minerals. This ore may have been mined at another property and was only milled at the ashdown mill. Deposit…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- 13 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=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: Producer
Operators / organizations
- North Lily Mining Co. · Historical operator · 1996
- Win-Eldrich Mines Ltd. 92 And 1994 To Present) · Historical operator · 1996
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Biotite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
View all 26 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Biotite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Molybdenum
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Galena
- Gneiss
- Hydrobiotite
- K Feldspar
- Molybdenite
- Native Copper
- Native Gold
- Native Mercury
- Powellite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Tetrahedrite Subgroup
- Welded tuff
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 (4)
- mapped adit symbols (13)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59668
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (26)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.