Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending South Railroad Gold Mine?

BLM land in Nevada, 8,500 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

The defenders

Nobody has claimed this fight yet

No group in our directory carries South Railroad Gold Mine in its work yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting: if you know the group that belongs here, tell us and our editors will look at it.

7 more work nearby but are not tied to South Railroad Gold Mine on the record

The situation

What’s happening to South Railroad Gold Mine

A new open-pit gold and silver mine on the Carlin Trend in Elko County, where more than half of the roughly 8,500-acre project area is BLM public land. The BLM fast-tracked the Orla Mining proposal under FAST-41, skipping the usual draft environmental impact statement and issuing the final EIS and decision together, leaving the public no chance to comment on the analysis before approval. Heap-leach gold mining in the high desert risks groundwater drawdown and cyanide contamination across the Tuscarora Field Office.

  1. 2025BLM issues notice of intent to prepare an EIS
  2. 2025Scoping comment period closes
Open-pit gold mine fast-tracked with no draft EIS

Source: Federal Register / BLM · May 22, 2026

No public comment window is open on South Railroad Gold Mine right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for South Railroad Gold Mine

Build my lineup around South Railroad Gold Mine: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

South Railroad Gold Mine has defenders. It needs more.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for South Railroad Gold Mine, with per-item sources. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.