Abandoned mines in Douglas County, Nevada

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   221 15.3%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   1,152 79.8%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   25 1.7%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   40 2.8%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   5 0.3%

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

1. Ancient Gold Placer Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ancient Gold Partnership · MSHA ID 2601717
   Abandoned 1981-11-23
2. Bing Materials

   Surface metal/non-metal · Bing Materials · MSHA ID 2600430
   Abandoned 2022-04-13
3. Bovie-Lew

   Surface metal/non-metal · Precious Metals Recovery Systems LLC · MSHA ID 2602604
   Abandoned 2007-12-14
4. Buckskin

   Facility metal/non-metal · Sonora Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2601685
   Abandoned 1995-01-10
5. Dresserville Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 2601219
   Abandoned 1982-05-21
6. Eagle Valley Genoa Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Dayton Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2601013
   Abandoned 1984-04-18
7. Genoa Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Savage Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2601010
   Abandoned 1984-04-18
8. Mohawk Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Veta Grande Companies Inc · MSHA ID 2601662
   Abandoned 1992-07-10
9. Pine Nut C-A Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · U S Bureau Of Land Management · MSHA ID 2601255
   Abandoned 1982-05-21
10. PORTABLE #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Doniker Crushing Corp · MSHA ID 2602439
    Abandoned 2002-02-07
11. PORTABLE PLANT #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · A & A Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2602437
    Abandoned 2017-02-03
12. Rancho Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Dayton Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2601572
    Abandoned 1980-09-19
13. Saw Mill Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Nevada Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 2601831
    Abandoned 1987-11-12
14. Settlemeyer Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Robert L Helms Construction · MSHA ID 2601452
    Abandoned 1978-11-10
15. Veta Grande Mine & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · High Technology Recovery Systems Inc · MSHA ID 2600524
    Abandoned 1984-04-11

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Nye County 18,876
• Esmeralda County 17,520
• White Pine County 9,347
• Mineral County 8,599
• Humboldt County 8,385
• Elko County 7,657
• Lander County 6,751
• Pershing County 6,611
• Lyon County 6,309
• Churchill County 5,527
• Clark County 5,392
• Eureka County 4,664

1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
   597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
   States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
   One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
   Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
   Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
   Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
   The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
   Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.