Facts
- MSHA status
- Active since Jun 10, 2012
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Esmeralda County
- State
- Nevada
- Land status (BLM data)
- Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
- Nearest town
- Silver Peak
- Employees reported
- 32
- Operator
- Mineral Ridge Gold, LLC
- Coordinates
- 37.7933, -117.7194
- MSHA mine ID
- 2602302
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
- Red Light Mine
- USGS status
- Past producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Copper
- Workings
- Underground
- Output size
- small (USGS class)
- Production years
- from 1888
- Discovered
- 1888
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10104108 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Goldfield 27 mi · non-producing
- Columbia Gold Mines Ltd 27 mi · non-producing
- Pmm 29 mi · intermittent
- Isabella Pearl Mine 60 mi · active
- GoldWedge 62 mi · non-producing
- Manhattan Gulch 62 mi · intermittent
- County Line Mine 68 mi · intermittent
- Smoky Valley Common Operation-UG 70 mi · active