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Battle Mountain is an unincorporated town in, and the county seat of, Lander County, Nevada, United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The population was 3,705 at the 2020 census . Its primary economic base is gold mining and, to a lesser extent, legalized gambling.
The Marigold gold mine is an open pit gold mine in Valmy, Nevada, 14 miles (23 km) west-northwest of Battle Mountain.The mine is owned and operated by SSR Mining Inc.. Gold mineralization at Marigold is finely disseminated within sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks, including limestone, siltstone, breccias, meta-basalts and quartzite.
The earliest mining was around the old mining camp of Copper Basin in Long Canyon which lies 5.4 miles (8.7 km) west of the current town of Battle Mountain. The Copper Basin area was the original location of the Battle Mountain mining camp which later moved to the current location on the Humboldt as a mining support town.
In 2020 mining overall contributed $9.5 billion to the state's economy, $8.4 billion from gold and silver mining (all silver produced in Nevada is as a by-product from gold mining). Gold production from Nevada was higher than any other U.S. state, 4,632,690 troy ounces (144,090 kg) in 2020 (a decrease of 4.8% on 2019), accounting for 76% of ...
Cortez Gold Mine is a large gold mining and processing facility in Lander and Eureka County, Nevada, United States, located approximately 63 miles (100 km) southwest of Elko. It is owned as a joint venture between Barrick Gold Corporation (61.5%) and Newmont Corporation (38.5%), operated by Barrick, and comprises the Pipeline, Crossroads, and ...
Lander County was created in 1862 as the result of a mining boom on the Reese River along the old pony express line, taking a considerable portion of Churchill and Humboldt counties with it. Named for Frederick W. Lander , [ 3 ] chief engineer of a federal wagon route and Special Indian Agent in the area, it was one of the original 11 counties ...
North Battle Mountain is located at the northern terminus of Nevada State Route 806 5 miles (8.0 km) north-northeast of Battle Mountain. North Battle Mountain was a station on the Western Pacific Railroad. [2] North Battle Mountain is located North Battle Mountain Mining Area, which has barite, silver, lead, copper and gold resources. [3] [4]
Gold-bearing skarn in the Battle Mountain region of northeast Nevada is an important target for mining. Up to 263 polymetallic veins contain sphalerite, galena, jamesonite and tetrahedrite. Polymetallic molybdenum, antimony, uranium, copper, gold zinc, lead and silver ores have been mined in the Reese River area since the 1800s.