[1] The Wrigleys, famous for their gum and Chicago baseball team, built the steam-powered mill and established what became The Bodie Mining Company.

Several lease-option agreements occurred in the late 1970s, and early 1980s during the related spike in gold prices, but no mining or development has transpired on the property since that time.

The Bodie vein is a series of parallel quartz stringers or veinlets separated by narrow bands of highly altered and pyritized andesite/dacite.

Recent chemical analyses of the Bodie ore indicate that the mineralization is more complex than previously imagined, and assays have shown favorable results of several precious metals throughout the property.

Washington State Geologist Wayne Moen,[5] in his 1980 report, notes: The Bodie vein is a persistent quartz fissure gold-bearing that has been partially mined.

Assays of the breccia in the upper levels of the mine have run as high as 0.23 ounce per ton in gold.The potentially large quantity of ore posited by Moen remains unverified beneath fifteen hundred feet.

Remnants of its picturesque, eponymous ghost town, including the bunkhouse, school, kitchen and assay office, are bisected by Torada Road.