Abandoned mines in Eureka County, Nevada

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   936 20.1%
2. Prospect pits and trenches

   shallow exploration diggings that never became a mine
   3,465 74.3%
3. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   66 1.4%
4. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   161 3.5%
5. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   36 0.8%

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. Ames Construction Carlin Wash Plant

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ames Construction, Inc. · MSHA ID 2602537
   Abandoned 2004-11-18
2. Barrick Goldstrike Mine Decline

   Underground metal/non-metal · Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc · MSHA ID 2602053
   Abandoned 1989-02-06
3. Bazza Underground Mine

   Underground metal/non-metal · Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. · MSHA ID 2602720
   Abandoned 2015-03-03
4. Big Joker Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Petro-Chem Inc · MSHA ID 2601505
   Abandoned 1979-09-20
5. Bisoni Barite

   Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Milling · MSHA ID 2601641
   Abandoned 1982-09-02
6. BUCKHORN MINE

   Surface metal/non-metal · Cominco American Resources Inc · MSHA ID 2600785
   Abandoned 1998-10-20
7. Buckhorn Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Eureka County Road Department · MSHA ID 2601486
   Abandoned 1979-09-20
8. CARLIN EAST

   Underground metal/non-metal · Newmont USA Limited · MSHA ID 2602271
   Abandoned 2006-09-30
9. Chukar

   Underground metal/non-metal · Nevada Gold Mines LLC · MSHA ID 2602481
   Abandoned 2020-03-24
10. Deep Star

    Underground metal/non-metal · Newmont USA Limited · MSHA ID 2602374
    Abandoned 2011-11-21
11. DEEP STAR MINE

    Underground metal/non-metal · Newmont USA Limited · MSHA ID 2602255
    Abandoned 2002-02-22
12. Diamond Mine

    Underground metal/non-metal · Small Mine Development, LLC · MSHA ID 2601524
    Abandoned 2017-08-24
13. DUNPHY WASH PLANT

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ames Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2602438
    Abandoned 2003-08-05
14. Enegix Mining Group

    Surface metal/non-metal · Enegix, LLC · MSHA ID 2602861
    Abandoned 2020-10-01
15. Eureka-Hamburg

    Surface metal/non-metal · General Mineral Development Company · MSHA ID 2601679
    Abandoned 1982-02-26
16. Firecracker

    Surface metal/non-metal · Peabody Calada Inc · MSHA ID 2601636
    Abandoned 1981-03-19
17. Geddes Mine

    Surface metal/non-metal · Trv Exploration (Nev) Inc · MSHA ID 2601700
    Abandoned 1983-12-30
18. Gold Bar

    Surface metal/non-metal · Brown & Root Inc · MSHA ID 2602218
    Abandoned 1994-02-14
19. GOLD BAR MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Atlas Gold Mining Inc · MSHA ID 2601946
    Abandoned 2000-05-25
20. Gold Pick East/Gold Stone North

    Underground metal/non-metal · Fausett Mine Services · MSHA ID 2602244
    Abandoned 1994-10-11
21. Lucky Sam (Zane Hunt Mining)

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ostler Rocky Mountain Refractories · MSHA ID 2601479
    Abandoned 1983-07-15
22. Maggie Creek Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Carlin Gold Mining Company · MSHA ID 2601635
    Abandoned 1985-01-09
23. Minoletti Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rowley's Ready-Mix, LLC · MSHA ID 2602709
    Abandoned 2025-01-03
24. MODARELLI MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Saga Exploration Company · MSHA ID 2602466
    Abandoned 2006-07-11
25. Mount Hope Project

    Surface metal/non-metal · Idaho General Mines, Inc. · MSHA ID 2602578
    Abandoned 2006-07-11
26. Mt Hope Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mt Hope Mining Corp · MSHA ID 2601132
    Abandoned 1981-03-18
27. Mt. Hope Project

    Surface metal/non-metal · Eureka Moly, LLC · MSHA ID 2602729
    Abandoned 2015-12-31
28. Ndot Deposit #La-17-1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Traylor Brothers Inc · MSHA ID 2602107
    Abandoned 1989-09-08
29. NEVADA BARTH IRON MINE AND MILL

    Surface metal/non-metal · Saga Exploration Company · MSHA ID 2600078
    Abandoned 2020-10-19
30. Newmont Carlin Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Selland Construction Inc · MSHA ID 2602216
    Abandoned 1993-12-28
31. Norse Windfall Mines Incorporated

    Surface metal/non-metal · Norse Windfall Mines Inc · MSHA ID 2600891
    Abandoned 1990-01-24
32. Palisade Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Nevada State Highway Department · MSHA ID 2601477
    Abandoned 1978-08-30
33. Palisade Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Elko Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 2602395
    Abandoned 2024-10-16
34. Palisade Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Elko Sand & Gravel Inc. · MSHA ID 2602843
    Abandoned 2024-10-16
35. Palisades

    Surface metal/non-metal · Bee Bee Contractors · MSHA ID 2601570
    Abandoned 1980-11-26
36. Pallisades

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ludwig Mining Company · MSHA ID 2601598
    Abandoned 1982-08-23
37. Portable Crusher #1005

    Surface metal/non-metal · Road and Highway Builders, LLC · MSHA ID 2602199
    Abandoned 2013-09-17
38. POST MILL

    Facility metal/non-metal · Newmont Mining Corp. · MSHA ID 2600501
    Abandoned 2001-07-30
39. Project Glister

    Surface metal/non-metal · Ussram Exploration Company · MSHA ID 2602084
    Abandoned 1990-08-01
40. Queen Ann (Recursos)

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chemical & Petroleum Corp Of America · MSHA ID 2601629
    Abandoned 1981-01-08
41. RAIN MINE

    Surface metal/non-metal · Newmont USA Limited · MSHA ID 2600815
    Abandoned 2007-07-17
42. Rita K

    Underground metal/non-metal · Nevada Gold Mines LLC · MSHA ID 2602890
    Abandoned 2025-09-18
43. Sestanovich Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · DV Gravel & Exploration LLC · MSHA ID 2602698
    Abandoned 2017-01-04
44. Silver Connor

    Underground metal/non-metal · Silver Connor Mines Inc · MSHA ID 2601656
    Abandoned 1982-09-02
45. Spl-4849

    Surface metal/non-metal · Unichem Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 2601742
    Abandoned 1982-03-05
46. Storm Exploration Decline

    Underground metal/non-metal · Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc · MSHA ID 2602300
    Abandoned 2016-07-20
47. Terex CRS820H Screen Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Canyon Construction Co. · MSHA ID 2602855
    Abandoned 2021-09-28
48. Tonkin Springs

    Surface metal/non-metal · Tonkin Springs LLC · MSHA ID 2601933
    Abandoned 2006-06-23
49. Wierd II

    Underground metal/non-metal · Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc · MSHA ID 2602575
    Abandoned 2007-03-21
50. Wright Property

    Surface metal/non-metal · Custom Milling · MSHA ID 2601646
    Abandoned 1981-12-30

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
• Washoe County 2,642

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.