El Nino

El Nino is an underground gold mine in Eureka County, Nevada, near Carlin. MSHA lists its status as active since Jul 1, 2018 and records 69 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 25 of 54 in the state.

Facts

MSHA status
Active since Jul 1, 2018
Type
Underground
County
Eureka County
State
Nevada
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
Nearest town
Carlin
Employees reported
69
Operator
Nevada Gold Mines LLC
Coordinates
40.9744, -116.3522
MSHA mine ID
2602830

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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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
Deep Post Mine
USGS status
Producer
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Arsenic
Deposit type
Sediment-hosted Au
Output size
large (USGS class)
Production years
from 1986
Discovered
1982

Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10310437 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.

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