Generator Hill Deposit

Generator Hill Deposit is a producer of gold, silver, mercury, antimony in Elko County, Nevada, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1918. It is one of 570 historic gold producers USGS lists in Elko County, and number 14 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Mercury, Antimony, Barium-Barite, Arsenic
Deposit type
Carbonate-hosted Au-Ag
Workings
Surface/Underground
Production years
from 1918
Discovered
1918
County
Elko County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Federal land in a US Forest Service national forest or grassland
USGS record
10111452

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.

This location is mapped as federal land. Public land is not an invitation to enter old workings. Ask the managing agency about access, claims and closures.

Gold sites nearby

30 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Elko County page lists the biggest.