Facts
- MSHA status
- Active since Sep 22, 1975
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Nye County
- State
- Nevada
- Land status (BLM data)
- Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
- Nearest town
- round mountain
- Employees reported
- 698
- Operator
- Round Mountain Gold Corporation
- Coordinates
- 38.7083, -117.1033
- MSHA mine ID
- 2600594
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
- Sphinx
- USGS status
- Past producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Silver
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10295014 (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 The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.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
- Smoky Valley Common Operation-UG Nye County, NV
Gold mines nearby
- Smoky Valley Common Operation-UG 3 mi · active
- GoldWedge 11 mi · non-producing
- Manhattan Gulch 12 mi · intermittent
- County Line Mine 49 mi · intermittent
- Isabella Pearl Mine 58 mi · active
- Columbia Gold Mines Ltd 69 mi · non-producing
- Goldfield 70 mi · non-producing
- Pmm 70 mi · intermittent