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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.
Stratton's Independence Mine and Mill is a historic gold mining site near Victor, Colorado on the south slope of Battle Mountain. Between late 1893 and April 1899, approximately 200,000 ounces (6200 kg) of gold was removed from the Independence Mine.
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.
Ralph J. Roberts (right) Ralph Jackson Roberts (1911–2007) was an American geologist and research scientist with the USGS.He is credited with the discovery of the Carlin and Battle Mountain Gold Belts, which make up the richest gold-mining region in Nevada as well as the United States.
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 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.
The town was the site of a small gold-mining district that saw production from the 1870s to the 1960s. Dixie Valley: Churchill: 1861: Dun Glen: Pershing: 1862: 1894: Later became Chafey. [3] Eagleville: Mineral: 1885: 1915: Neglected site: El Dorado City: Clark: 1863: 1880s: Barren site: Mining camp in El Dorado Canyon in the Colorado Mining ...
This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.