Round Mountain Gold Mine

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gold mine open-pit mine surface mining operation

Round Mountain Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold mining operation in central Nevada known for its significant gold production.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Round Mountain Gold Mine canonical	8
Nevada Gold Mines	1
Round Mountain mine	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1496034 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Round Mountain Gold Mine
Context triple: [Nye County, contains, Round Mountain Gold Mine]

A. Battle Mountain mining district
The Battle Mountain mining district is a historically significant mineral-producing area in north-central Nevada known for its rich gold and copper deposits.
B. Tioga Mine
Tioga Mine was a historic silver mining operation in the Sierra Nevada of California that gave its name to nearby Tioga Pass.
C. El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
D. Coarsegold
Coarsegold is a small unincorporated community in central California, known historically as a Gold Rush-era mining town and now as a gateway stop on the route to Yosemite National Park.
E. Comstock Lode area
The Comstock Lode area is a historically significant mining district in Nevada famed for its rich silver ore deposits that spurred a major 19th-century mining boom and helped drive U.S. economic growth.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Round Mountain Gold Mine
Target entity description: Round Mountain Gold Mine is a large open-pit gold mining operation in central Nevada known for its significant gold production.

A. Battle Mountain mining district
The Battle Mountain mining district is a historically significant mineral-producing area in north-central Nevada known for its rich gold and copper deposits.
B. Tioga Mine
Tioga Mine was a historic silver mining operation in the Sierra Nevada of California that gave its name to nearby Tioga Pass.
C. El Teniente mine
El Teniente mine is one of the world’s largest underground copper mines, located in central Chile and operated by the state-owned company Codelco.
D. Coarsegold
Coarsegold is a small unincorporated community in central California, known historically as a Gold Rush-era mining town and now as a gateway stop on the route to Yosemite National Park.
E. Comstock Lode area
The Comstock Lode area is a historically significant mining district in Nevada famed for its rich silver ore deposits that spurred a major 19th-century mining boom and helped drive U.S. economic growth.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	gold mine ⓘ open-pit mine ⓘ surface mining operation ⓘ
commercialProductionStart	1977 ⓘ
commodityProduced	gold ⓘ
contributesTo	Nevada gold production ⓘ U.S. gold production ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
depositType	epithermal gold deposit ⓘ
discoveredIn	1906 ⓘ
economicImpact	major employer in central Nevada ⓘ
employs	mine workers in Nye County ⓘ
environmentalManagement	heap leach solution containment ⓘ reclamation activities ⓘ waste rock management ⓘ
hasExpansion	Phase W expansion project ⓘ
hasFeature	heap leach pads ⓘ large open pit ⓘ processing facilities ⓘ
hasInfrastructure	administration buildings ⓘ crushing facilities ⓘ haul roads ⓘ maintenance shops ⓘ
hasLicense	mining permits from Nevada authorities ⓘ
hostRock	volcanic rocks ⓘ
isOneOf	largest gold mines in Nevada ⓘ largest open-pit gold mines in the United States ⓘ
isSubjectOf	U.S. Geological Survey publications ⓘ technical reports by Kinross Gold ⓘ
lifeOfMineExtendedBy	Phase W expansion project ⓘ
locatedIn	Nevada ⓘ Nye County, Nevada ⓘ linked to: Nye County central Nevada ⓘ
miningMethod	open-pit mining ⓘ
nearSettlement	Round Mountain, Nevada ⓘ linked to: Round Mountain Tonopah, Nevada ⓘ linked to: Tonopah
operatedBy	Kinross Gold Corporation ⓘ
oreType	low-grade disseminated gold ore ⓘ
ownedBy	Kinross Gold Corporation ⓘ
previousOwner	Barrick Gold Corporation ⓘ
processingMethod	carbon-in-column processing ⓘ heap leaching ⓘ mill processing ⓘ
produces	gold doré bars ⓘ
regulatoryJurisdiction	State of Nevada ⓘ linked to: Nevada U.S. federal mining laws ⓘ
safetyFocus	mine worker safety programs ⓘ

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Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nye County → contains → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Round Mountain → knownFor → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Round Mountain → developedAround → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Round Mountain → hasFacility → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Round Mountain → hasPrimaryEmployer → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Carvers, Nevada → hasNearbyMine → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Round Mountain mining district → knownFor → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Round Mountain mining district → contains → Round Mountain Gold Mine ⓘ

Cortez mining district → operatedBy → Nevada Gold Mines ⓘ

linked to: Round Mountain Gold Mine

Kinross Gold Corporation → hasMine → Round Mountain mine ⓘ