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Title: The Nevada mineral industry 2024
Author: Jowitt, S.M., Micander, R., Lindsey, C., Fisher, T., Reynolds,
D., and Lu, C.
Year: 2025
Series: Nevada Mineral Industry
Format: Spiral-bound; 105 pages; color
This report highlights activities in 2024 in the exploration and production for metals, industrial minerals,
geothermal energy, and petroleum within the state of Nevada. Once again, Nevada led the nation in the production of gold ($8.351 billion) and barite ($44.299 million). Nevada also remained the only state that produced lithium compounds from primary extraction ($62.023 million), magnesite ($14.684 million), and the specialty clays, sepiolite and saponite (total specialty clay production of $16.430 million). Other commodities mined and produced in Nevada in 2024, in order of value, included copper ($649.5 million), geothermal energy ($324.332 million), aggregate (sand, gravel, and crushed stone; $311 million), silver ($156.753 million), diatomite ($47.332 million), gypsum ($42.597 million), limestone and dolomite (mainly for cement, $39.027 million), silica ($23.138
million), and petroleum ($11.733 million; table 1). The locations of many of the sites mentioned in the text of this report are shown in NBMG Open-File Report 2025-01, Nevada Active Mines and Energy Producers, which is available at https://pubs.nbmg.unr.edu/Nevada-active-mines-and-energy-producers-OF2025-01-p/of2025-01.htm.
Suggested Citation: Jowitt, S.M., Micander, R., Lindsey, C., Fisher, T., Reynolds, D., and Lu, C., 2025, The Nevada mineral industry 2024: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special Publication MI-2024, 105 p.
© Copyright 2025 The University of Nevada, Reno. All Rights Reserved
Original Product Code: MI2024
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