Cortez District-Underground

Cortez District-Underground is an underground gold mine in Eureka County, Nevada, near Cresent Valley. MSHA lists its status as active since Dec 9, 2008 and records 360 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 13 of 54 in the state.

Facts

MSHA status
Active since Dec 9, 2008
Type
Underground
County
Eureka County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
Nearest town
Cresent Valley
Employees reported
360
Operator
Nevada Gold Mines LLC
Coordinates
40.2006, -116.6192
MSHA mine ID
2602573

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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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
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 The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.

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