Getchell Gold Mine

Getchell Gold Mine is a producer of gold, silver, arsenic, barium-barite in Humboldt County, Nevada, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1938 to 1999. It is one of 294 historic gold producers USGS lists in Humboldt County, and number 7 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Molybdenum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Thallium, Tellurium, Bismuth, Tin, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Tungsten, Antimony, Mercury
Deposit type
Sediment-hosted Au
Production years
1938 to 1999
Discovered
1933
County
Humboldt County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10310488

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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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

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