Are there any operating gold mines in the USA, or have they all been exhausted? Or, did Big Brother jump everyone’s claim and snatch them all up? Just wondering late at night about such things… - Jinx
The Carlin gold mine near Carlin, NV, is still going strong. It’s the largest operating gold mine in the USA, IIRC.
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When I visited in 2000, they had at least one pit being actively mined and had an active underground operation. It’s also worth noting that the Carlin mines are they type locality for “Carlin-Style Gold Deposits” aka “No-See’um Gold”.
The most famous gold mine that I know of
is in South Dakota and is called “the Homestake”
When Wm. Randolph Hearst (father of the Hearst newspaper man in
the movie “Citizen Hearst”)
who discovered copper in Butte ,Montana ( once called
“the richest hill on earth”)
went on to find gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
His wife allegedly told him , sell anything but never
the Homestake.
I think it is still producing gold and selling stock.
Also many other mining operations, silver, platinum,copper,
etc. find smaller gold deposits with the other ore.
The largest gold mine in Alaska is the Fort Knox Mine, owned by Kinross Gold Corp. It produced 411,221 ounces of gold in 2001, placing in the top ten gold mines in the country.
Throughout California, Nevada, & Alaska, amateurs still pan for gold.
And find it.
I live next door to a large gold mine that closed 9 yrs. ago with the collapse of gold prices. Lots of operating gold mines in, (of all sizes) in Cal & Nev.
The Sierra Nevadas are still full of gold, just harder to refine now.
Theres gold in them there hills.
So far as I know, the Homestake is no longer producing gold, but it’s still quite profitable, being the site of a major scientific facility to study subatomic particles called neutrinoes. And Butte is still “The Richest Hill on Earth”: Even though copper isn’t nearly as valuable as gold, there’s an awful lot of copper under Butte.