Facts
- MSHA status
- Active since Feb 3, 1986
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Pershing County
- State
- Nevada
- Land status (BLM data)
- Private land or land not mapped as public
- Nearest town
- Imlay
- Employees reported
- 300
- Operator
- Florida Canyon Mining Inc.
- Website
- floridacanyongold.com
- Coordinates
- 40.5858, -118.2564
- MSHA mine ID
- 2601947
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Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date.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
- Florida Canyon Gold Mine
- USGS status
- Producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Silver, Mercury, Kaolin, Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Sulfur
- Deposit type
- Epithermal vein, Comstock
- Workings
- Surface
- Output size
- medium (USGS class)
- Production years
- 1986 to 2004
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10310409 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Rosebud 26 mi · active
- Hycroft Mine 26 mi · active
- Relief Canyon Mine 26 mi · active
- Spring Valley 31 mi · intermittent
- Cove Underground Project 57 mi · non-producing
- Lone Tree Mine 58 mi · active
- Phoenix Mine 59 mi · active
- Marigold Mine 59 mi · active