Facts
- MSHA status
- Active since Sep 27, 1988
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Lander County
- State
- Nevada
- Land status (BLM data)
- Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
- Nearest town
- Crescent valley
- Employees reported
- 974
- Operator
- Nevada Gold Mines LLC
- Coordinates
- 40.1925, -116.6236
- MSHA mine ID
- 2600827
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
- Cortez Gold Mine
- USGS status
- Producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Silver, Mercury, Arsenic, Antimony
- Deposit type
- Sediment-hosted Au
- Output size
- large (USGS class)
- Production years
- 1969 to 1993
- Discovered
- 1966
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10310410 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Other gold mines under the same operator
- Emigrant Elko County, NV
- Long Canyon Elko County, NV
- Arturo Eureka County, NV
- Cortez District-Underground Eureka County, NV
- El Nino Eureka County, NV
- Exodus Eureka County, NV
- Genesis Eureka County, NV
- Goldrush Eureka County, NV
- Goldstrike Mine Eureka County, NV
- Leeville Eureka County, NV
- Meikle Mine Eureka County, NV
- Mill 6 Eureka County, NV
- Mill/Autoclave Operations Eureka County, NV
- Pete Bajo Eureka County, NV
- Roaster Operations Eureka County, NV
- South Area Eureka County, NV
- Turquoise Ridge Humboldt County, NV
- Twin Creeks Mine Humboldt County, NV
- Twin Underground Humboldt County, NV
- Phoenix Mine Lander County, NV
Gold mines nearby
- Goldrush 0 mi · active
- Cortez District-Underground 1 mi · active
- Gold Bar 32 mi · active
- Cove Underground Project 33 mi · non-producing
- Phoenix Mine 35 mi · active
- Exodus 45 mi · active
- Genesis 45 mi · active
- Goldstrike Mine 45 mi · active