USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
King Midas Group
Mindat Confirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Mill City District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Mindat Confirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
0.5 miles south of Golden Eagle. Gold Silver Lead Deposit: Drift along quartz vein along contact of tan paper shale and medium-grained granodiorite dike; dike weathers pale light brown. Vein consists of quartz stringers in 2-3 ft zone of crushed shale…
Additional documented workings
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Drift
— documented in 1 source record.
Mindat
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 5 shaft symbols
- 19 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Drift
Documented in Mindat locality data. Evidence: 0.5 miles south of Golden Eagle. Gold Silver Lead Deposit: Drift along quartz vein along contact of tan paper shale and medium-graine…
- 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
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
- Arsenopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Hematite
View all 14 reported minerals
- Arsenopyrite
- Chlorite Group
- commodity:Arsenic
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Diorite
- Hematite
- Hornfels
- Limonite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Shale
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 (5)
- mapped adit symbols (19)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59603
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (14)
- underground workings
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