Nevada Active Mines and Energy Producers

Nevada Active Mines and Energy Producers

NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY
42°
EDUCATIONAL SERIES E-49
NEVADA ACTIVE MINES AND ENERGY PRODUCERS
Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Division of Minerals
120°
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5
117°
118°
119°
114°
115°
116°
42°
93
1
8
H u m b o l d t
41°
Washoe
24
6
80
43
Gerlach
12
18
53
3
Douglas
9
Minden
17
25
95
20
66 18
5
26
6
3 4
7
5
1
Battle
Mountain
1
10
13
Austin
10
93
Eureka
24
50
Eureka
W h i t e
23
15
5
3
48
11
9
8
3
E s m e r a l d a
71
Tonopah
Pioche
N y e
38°
L i n c o l n
Goldfield
Caliente
79
118°
93
Pilot Peak Quarry
Pioneer Gypsum Mine
Pipes Pit
Pittman Detention Pit
Popcorn Mine
Providence Pit
Racetrack Pit
Rainbow Quarries
Rilite Aggregate
Rossi Mine
Salt Lake Highway Pit
Salt Wells Gravel Pit
Sierra Ready Mix Quarry
Sierra Stone Quarry
Silver Peak Operations
Simplot Silica Products Pit
Sloan Quarry
Spanish Springs Quarry
Spanish Trails Pit
Speedway Pit
Spring Mountain Pit
Summerlin Pit
Tenacity Perlite Mine
Terraced Hill Clay Mine
Tracy Pit
Trico Pit
W. Glen Sexton Family Trust
GEMSTONE MINES
Blue Ridge Turquoise Mine
Bonanza Opal Mine
Lone Mountain Turquoise Mine
Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine
Royal Peacock Opal Mine
Royal Blue Turquoise Mine
Ely
6
7
12 1
6
95
37°
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GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS 23
1 Beowawe
24
2 Blue Mountain
25
3 Bradys
26
4 Desert Peak
27
5 Dixie Valley
28
6 Empire
29
7 Salt Wells
8 Soda Lake
9 Steamboat - Binary
10 Steamboat - Flash
1
11 Stillwater
2
12 Wabuska
3
1
2
3
4
5
6
P i n e
39°
38°
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40°
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25
119°
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57
Carlin
Hawthorne
INDUSTRIAL MINERAL MINES
3D Pit
Adams Claim Gypsum Mine
Apex Landfill Pit
Apex Quarry
Argenta Mine
Basalite Dayton Pit
Bella Vista Pit
Big Ledge Mine
Bing Materials Pit
Black and Red Cinder Pits
Blue Diamond Pit
Boulder Ranch Quarry
Cactus Pit
Celite Mine
CEMEX Paiute Pit
Cinder Cone Pit
Clark Mine
Colado Mines
Dayton Materials
Dressler Pit
East Pit
El Dorado Quarry
Elburz Pit
Empire Quarry
Gabbs Mine
Gamebird Pit
Golden Valley Pit
Goni Pit
Greystone Mine
Hazen Pit
Hazen Pit
Hidden Canyon Pit
Huck Salt
IMV Pits
Jean Pit
Jean Quarry
Kramer Hill Quartzite Quarry
Lahontan Pit
Lee Canyon Sand and Gravel Pit
Lockwood Quarry
Lone Mountain Pits
Mesquite Community Pit
MIN-AD Mine
Moapa (CEMEX) Pit
Moapa (Ready Mix) Pit
Moltan Mine
Money Pit
Mount Moriah Quarry
Mull Lane Pit
Mustang Pit
Nassau Mine
Nevada Cement Mine
Nightingale Pit
North Jean Lake Pit
PABCO Gypsum-Apex Pit
Pahrump Community Pit
41°
80
Elko
22
M i n e r a l
Compiled by
David A. Davis and Ronald H. Hess
2009
Wells
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c h i l l
11
Nevada Active Mines
and Energy Producers
4
2
9
L a n d e r
5
14
20
1
29
Lovelock
46
4
13
27
21
8
51
74
81 15
C h u r
32 50 17 49
52 30 8
Reno Sparks
11
14
40
Fallon
70 82
31
7
7
68
65 6
38
9 10
10
33
61
19 L y o n
28
12
2
CarsonCity
27
120°
83
E l k o
19
16
37
P e r s h i n g
40°
39°
80
29
28
Winnemucca
2
14
15
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
37°
Beatty
METAL MINES
Ashdown Mine
117°
Bald Mountain Mine
Betze/Post Mine
Carlin North - Genesis Complex
Carlin North - Post and adjacent mines
Carlin South - Carlin and adjacent mines
Carlin South - Gold Quarry and adjacent mines
Coeur Rochester Mine
Cortez Hills Mine
Cortez Pipeline Mine
Denton-Rawhide Mine
Florida Canyon Mine
Hollister Mine
Hycroft Mine
Jerritt Canyon Mine
Lone Tree Mine
Marigold Mine
Meikle Mine
Midas Mine
Mule Canyon Mine
Phoenix Mine
Robinson Mine
Round Mountain Mine (Smoky Valley Common Operation)
Ruby Hill Mine
Standard Mine
Storm Mine
Trenton Canyon Mine
Turquoise Ridge Joint Venture
Twin Creeks Mine
OIL FIELDS
Bacon Flat
Blackburn
Currant
Deadman Creek
Duckwater Creek
Eagle Springs
Ghost Ranch
Grant Canyon
Kate Spring
North Willow Creek
Sand Dune
Sans Spring
Three Bar
Tomera Ranch
Trap Spring
Compiled by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (www.nbmg.unr.edu) and the Nevada Division of Minerals (www.minerals.state.nv.us).
Source: NBMG Special Publications MI-2008, The Nevada Mineral Industry 2008 and P-20, Major Mines of Nevada 2008.
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C l a r k
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116°
36°
3
67
76 4
63
55
59 LasVegas
78
58
77
21
75
Henderson
11
13
36°
73
64
60
22
54
35
12
47
69 36
41
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62
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Searchlight
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For sale by:
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
2175 Raggio Pkwy.
Reno, Nevada 89512
ph. (775) 784-6691, ext. 2
www.nbmg.unr.edu; nbmgsales@unr.edu