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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.
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.
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 ...
The camp was first called Gold Circle, but when the post office was established in 1907, officials decided that Nevada had too many towns with "gold" in their names, and the town was renamed Midas. [3] Millers: Esmeralda: Miriam: Churchill: Non-agency station of the SPRR [9] Mountain City: Elko: 1870: Semi-abandoned town: Nevada City: Churchill ...
General Metals Announces Transaction That Will Generate $2.350 Million in New Funding RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- General Metals Corporation (OTC.QB: GNMT) (www.nevada-goldmine.com) announced ...
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.
Sedimentary-rock hosted gold deposits in Nevada. All of the deposits shown that are north and east of the Battle Mountain-Eureka trend (and many of the others) are Carlin-type gold deposits . Source: USGS Goldstrike (Post–Betze) Mine , Carlin Trend , Nevada, the largest Carlin-type deposit in the world, containing more than 35,000,000 ounces ...
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 ...