Yankee Gold Mine

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The Yankee Gold Mine had production for 4 years, between 1992 and 1995. It is now part of Barrick Gold's Bald Mountain Gold Mine, South Operations.

The Yankee deposit is the only known deposit in Nevada that has active oil seeps. The discovery of oil seeps here are felt to be important to further exploration for gold in the Carlin Trend gold deposits, but also in the search for oil.

The oil seep was originally discovered when oil drillers prepariing to drill a 7,000 foot deep oil well in the area of the mine and asked the then operator of the mine Kennecott if he could hook up a telephone connection to his drill site from the mine. The oil seep was brought up when a mine employee casually told him there were hydrocarbons seeping onto the mine that was operating in a calcerous shale that according to some other employees were pooling on the ground under the seep.