Where to Find Silver in Nevada
Nevada is the second-largest silver producer in U.S. history, and the old Comstock and Tonopah camps still anchor most silver collecting. Native silver wires and acanthite-rich ore come from dump material around Virginia City in Storey County, and the surrounding canyons hold scattered float from glory-hole washouts. Tonopah in Nye County produced rich silver-gold-tellurium ore between 1900 and 1920, and its dumps along the highway carry stephanite, polybasite, and argentiferous galena. Smaller districts at Pioche, Eureka, and Aurora supply lesser but well-formed specimens. Most surface silver is dark and easy to mistake for galena, so test with a fresh scratch on a streak plate.
Spot list checked against source data on April 1, 2026.
Map of 46 silver collecting spots in Nevada
Standout silver spots in Nevada
Hand-picked from the full list below, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Best counties for silver in Nevada
Ranked by the number of mapped silver spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Clark County5 spots
- Esmeralda County5 spots
- Nye County5 spots
- Churchill County4 spots
- Humboldt County4 spots
- Lander County4 spots
- Eureka County3 spots
- Mineral County3 spots
- Douglas County2 spots
- Elko County2 spots
- Lincoln County2 spots
- Pershing County2 spots
- White Pine County2 spots
- Lyon County1 spot
- Storey County1 spot
Every silver spot we track in Nevada
Sorted by county. Coordinates open in Google Maps.
Before you go
Read the silver identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Silver in the encyclopedia.
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