Searchlight Deposit

Searchlight Deposit is a past producer of gold, silver, copper, tungsten in Clark County, Nevada, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1898 to 1959. It is one of 225 historic gold producers USGS lists in Clark County, and number 3 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Past producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Copper, Tungsten, Vanadium, Iron
Deposit type
Epithermal vein, Comstock
Production years
1898 to 1959
Discovered
1897
County
Clark County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
10310513

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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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