Facts
- MSHA status
- Intermittent since Jun 4, 2025
- Type
- Surface
- County
- Nye County
- State
- Nevada
- Land status (BLM data)
- Federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management
- Nearest town
- Beatty
- Employees reported
- 7
- Operator
- AngloGold Ashanti Sterling Inc.
- Coordinates
- 36.8278, -116.6331
- MSHA mine ID
- 2601503
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
- Sterling Mine
- USGS status
- Producer
- Commodities
- Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite
- Deposit type
- Sediment-hosted Au
- Workings
- Surface/Underground
- Output size
- small (USGS class)
- Production years
- 1980 to 1997
Matched by location to the USGS Mineral Resources Data System record 10310381 (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, so history may be out of date.
Gold mines nearby
- Pmm 68 mi · intermittent
- Goldfield 69 mi · non-producing
- Columbia Gold Mines Ltd 70 mi · non-producing
- Mineral Ridge Mine 90 mi · active