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Cortez District-Underground: 314 MSHA citations

Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.

Cortez District-Underground is an active gold ore underground mine in Eureka County, Nevada, operated by Nevada Gold Mines LLC with 360 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 2602573). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 314 citations and orders there with $436,466 in proposed penalties, and 19 accident reports were filed there, with 15 injury or illness cases, 1 of them fatal.

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MSHA mine ID

2602573

Status

Active since December 9, 2008

Main commodity

Gold ore

Mine type

Underground

County

Eureka County, Nevada

Nearest town

Cresent Valley

Operator

Nevada Gold Mines LLC

Employees

360

MSHA field office

Elko NV Field Office

Citations and orders since January 1, 2022

314

Significant and substantial

29 (9.2%)

Closure orders

12

High negligence or reckless

16

Proposed penalties

$436,466

Amount paid so far

$406,898

Inspections

54

Inspector hours on site

1,838

Citations per inspection

5.81 (all mines 2.30)

Accident reports

19

Injury and illness cases

15

Fatalities

1

Latest MSHA record

October 27, 2026

Citations issued to contractors here

11 ($5,407 proposed)

Citations and injury cases by year

Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.

Standards cited most at Cortez District-Underground

Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.

Injury and illness cases at Cortez District-Underground

Accident reports by degree of injury, as the operator reported them to MSHA.

What the accident reports at Cortez District-Underground describe

Accident classification, as MSHA codes the circumstances that contributed most directly.

Equipment named in accident reports at Cortez District-Underground

Other open mines in Eureka County, Nevada

US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.