Palo Alto Mine

Palo Alto Mine is a past producer of copper, gold, silver in Elko County, Nevada, in USGS's medium output class. USGS gives a discovery year of 1894. It is one of 570 historic gold producers USGS lists in Elko County, and number 38 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Copper, Gold, Silver
Deposit type
Polymetallic veins
Discovered
1894
County
Elko County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10045952

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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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