Gold Wealth in the Desert: Ruth, Nevada

Publisher’s Note: Nevada is the next stop on The American Wealth Tour. 

Our road trip through America’s vast natural resource wealth is taking a detour to Nevada, a state blessed with an enormous amount of mineral and energy wealth. 

We’ve given you a firsthand account of the natural resource wealth beneath our feet in Alaska’s Pebble Creek and Donlin Gold projects and Michigan’s Back Forty. Now we stop in Nevada, a state so endowed with mineral wealth its state nickname is the “Silver State.” 

Nevada holds a treasure trove of natural resources… from gold and silver (the Carlin Trend and the Comstock Lode) to the below-the-ground wealth in geothermal that measures in the billions of dollars.

In fact, since the mid-19th century, Nevada has produced over 205 million troy ounces of gold. This accounts for approximately 78% of total U.S. gold production and about 5% of global output. 

Come with me on this trip…

Let me take you back to a place most investors have never heard of — but will wish they had.

It’s a high-desert hamlet nestled against the snow-capped Egan Range in White Pine County, Nevada. 

Blink and you’ll miss it. But if you dig beneath the dusty surface of this forgotten mining town, you’ll uncover something extraordinary…

A vault of mineral wealth so vast, so rich in gold, copper, molybdenum, and more, that it could rewrite the American balance sheet overnight.

The place?

Ruth, Nevada.

Yes — that Ruth. A town with a population barely scratching 400. A ghost town in all but name. But underground? It holds one of the most significant concentrations of metal wealth in the entire western hemisphere.

And after decades in the shadows… Ruth may be coming back into the spotlight.

A Legacy of Copper and Gold… Buried by Time

The story of Ruth begins, like many Nevada boomtowns, in the copper-crazed early 1900s.

The legendary Robinson Mining District — which encompasses Ruth — exploded to life when massive copper porphyry deposits were discovered around 1906. The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company began mining soon after, feeding America’s growing hunger for electricity and telecommunication.

For decades, the Robinson Mine, located just outside Ruth, was one of the largest copper producers in the country. By 1929, it had churned out more than 200 million pounds of copper — and that was just the beginning.

But here’s what most people don’t know…

Alongside the copper, Ruth’s deposits also hold considerable quantities of gold, silver, and molybdenum — metals now critical to 21st-century technology, defense, and electrification.

Today, with the U.S. government finally waking up to its dangerous reliance on foreign minerals, Ruth is starting to look less like a relic — and more like a strategic treasure.

Meet the Modern Stakeholder: KGHM Polska Miedź

Fast-forward to today. The mine is now part of the Robinson Mine complex, owned and operated by Polish mining giant KGHM Polska Miedź SA — one of the world’s top 10 producers of copper and silver.

In 2004, KGHM acquired the Robinson Mine from BHP. Since then, it has modernized operations, ramped up copper production, and exported significant quantities of gold and molybdenum as byproducts.

But here's the twist…

Despite the active mining, the true potential of Ruth remains vastly underexploited.

According to the latest NI 43-101 resource estimates, the Robinson Mine still contains:

• 3.3 million ounces of gold
• 2.7 billion pounds of copper
• 95 million pounds of molybdenum

And that’s just the measured and indicated resource.

If we apply conservative 2025 spot prices…

• Gold at $2,350/oz = $7.76 billion
• Copper at $4.50/lb = $12.15 billion
• Molybdenum at $20/lb = $1.9 billion

That’s over $21.8 billion in gross resource value — and that doesn’t include inferred resources or unexplored zones around the Ruth pit (one of the mine’s three open pits) and beyond.

Robinson isn’t just a mine.

It’s a national security asset in disguise.

Why Ruth Could Be a Keystone in Trump’s Mineral Revival

President Trump’s 2025 executive order to fast-track domestic mineral production has reignited exploration across the American West.

And Ruth — located in the No. 1 mining jurisdiction in the world (Nevada) — checks every box for fast-track development:

• Permitted operations already underway
• Existing processing infrastructure
• Rail access and nearby power lines
• Proven mineralization over a century old

The only thing Ruth needs now… is the spotlight…

And investors who know how to front-run the rediscovery.

What the Mainstream Media Aren’t Saying (Yet)

Let’s be blunt: Wall Street doesn’t care about Ruth — yet.

But they will.

Because the same macro trends driving gold toward $4,000 (and beyond) and copper toward all-time highs are now creating a perfect storm for brownfield mineral giants like Ruth.

• The global copper shortfall could hit 10 million metric tons by 2035.
• Gold is reentering a currency war cycle, led by BRICS and central banks.
• Molybdenum, critical for high-strength alloys, is now in defense procurement plans.
• And tokenized minerals — like NatGold — are beginning to reshape how we invest in mineral reserves.
  

Put simply: Ruth is a sleeping giant, sitting on top of a $20 billion-plus war chest — in a nation desperate for secure, domestic metals.

Is a Modern-Day Gold Token Coming to Ruth?

Imagine if the certified reserves under Ruth could be tokenized — just like the early-stage pilot NatGold is doing with other unmined gold deposits.

Investors wouldn’t need to wait decades for mining profits.

Instead, they could tap into digitized resource ownership, backed by the ground itself — zero excavation, zero environmental blowback, zero geopolitical risk.

It’s not far-fetched.

KGHM already has experience with metal streaming and financial engineering. And with pressure mounting on foreign companies to align with U.S. mineral independence initiatives, the stars could align for a NatGold-style offering right out of Ruth.

Think of it as Bitcoin backed by buried bullion.

And this time, it’s not in some unstable jurisdiction — it’s right here, in a sleepy Nevada town you’ve never heard of… until now.

Is Ruth Part of the Carlin Gold Trend?

That’s a question I get every time I talk about Ruth.

No, Ruth is not part of the Carlin Trend.

It belongs to the Robinson Mining District, characterized by porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum systems — quite different from the sediment-hosted, “invisible” micron gold found in the Carlin Trend.

Still, both are world-class mining regions. Ruth’s edge lies in its multi-metal profile and proximity to existing infrastructure — making it a uniquely investable revival play.

Final Thought: Don’t Let Ruth Pass You By

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again…

History doesn’t repeat. It whispers.

And right now, Ruth is whispering to those willing to listen.

It whispered in 1906, when copper kick-started America’s electric boom.

It whispered in the ’80s, when molybdenum was classified as a strategic metal.

And now, in 2025, Ruth is whispering again — calling out to investors who see what’s coming before the rest of the world wakes up.

• A global realignment of currency.
• A domestic rush for resource independence.
• A tokenized revolution in how we invest.

And, buried deep beneath Ruth, Nevada, a treasure chest of metal wealth that could be the next great chapter in American economic revival.

You just have to be early.

The Prophet of Profit,

P.S. A new gold standard is rising — and this time, it’s global. With BRICS, Europe, and even the U.S. pushing gold-backed currencies, Trump just signed an executive order to fast-track mining on federal land. One tiny $1 miner sitting on a $518 billion deposit is already up 37% — and could deliver 10x–50x gains as this gold revolution accelerates. Get in now, before this miner takes off.