Facts
- MSHA status
- Active since Oct 1, 2013
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Mineral County
- State
- Nevada
- Land status (BLM data)
- Federal land in a US Forest Service national forest or grassland
- Nearest town
- Hawthorne
- Employees reported
- 8
- Operator
- Borealis Mining Company, LLC
- Coordinates
- 38.3881, -118.7700
- MSHA mine ID
- 2601655
Source: MSHA Mines data set, retrieved 2026-10-13. Status and counts can lag real operations.
This location is mapped as federal land. Public land is not an invitation to enter a working mine or old workings. Ask the managing agency about access, claims and closures.
History and geology (USGS)
- USGS site name
- Freedom Flats Deposit
- USGS status
- Producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Lead, Mercury, Bismuth, Tellurium, Nickel
- Deposit type
- Epithermal quartz-alunite Au
- Workings
- Surface
- Output size
- small (USGS class)
- Production years
- 1986 to 1989
- Discovered
- 1986
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10106950 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Isabella Pearl Mine 35 mi · active
- Walker Lane Mining LLC (Rawhide) 47 mi · active
- County Line Mine 48 mi · intermittent
- Mineral Ridge Mine 70 mi · active
- Spring Valley Mine 75 mi · active
- Smoky Valley Common Operation-UG 90 mi · active
- GoldWedge 92 mi · non-producing
- Manhattan Gulch 92 mi · intermittent