Chimney Creek Mine

Chimney Creek Mine is a producer of gold, silver, sand and gravel, construction in Humboldt County, Nevada, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1987. It is one of 294 historic gold producers USGS lists in Humboldt County, and number 11 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Arsenic, Antimony, Lead, Thallium, Mercury
Deposit type
Carbonate-hosted Au-Ag
Production years
from 1987
Discovered
1985
County
Humboldt County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10037801

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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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

22 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Humboldt County page lists the biggest.