Archimedes Underground Mine

Archimedes Underground Mine is an underground gold mine in Eureka County, Nevada, near Eureka. MSHA lists its status as active since Oct 1, 2025 and records 20 employees. It is one of 57 gold mines in Nevada that are not marked abandoned, and one of 17 in Eureka County; by employees it ranks 39 of 54 in the state.

Facts

MSHA status
Active since Oct 1, 2025
Type
Underground
County
Eureka County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
Nearest town
Eureka
Employees reported
20
Operator
Ruby Hill Mining Company, LLC.
Coordinates
39.5331, -115.9831
MSHA mine ID
2602912

Source: MSHA Mines data set, retrieved 2026-10-13. Status and counts can lag real operations.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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

History and geology (USGS)

USGS site name
Ruby Hill Gold Mine
USGS status
Producer
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Barium-Barite, Arsenic, Mercury, Antimony, Zinc
Deposit type
Sediment-hosted Au
Output size
small (USGS class)
Production years
from 1997
Discovered
1991

Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10310484 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.

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