April Fool Mine

April Fool Mine is a past producer of gold, silver, copper, bismuth in Lincoln County, Nevada, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1892. It is one of 218 historic gold producers USGS lists in Lincoln County, and number 8 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth, Antimony
Workings
Underground
Production years
from 1892
Discovered
1892
County
Lincoln County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10037386

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.

Gold sites nearby

19 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Lincoln County page lists the biggest.