Silver Peak (also Silverpeak) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States.

The Silver Peak Railroad was built by the Pittsburgh Silver Peak Gold Mining Company after it bought a group of mining properties in 1906 and established a 100 stamp mill at Blair, Nevada, in 1907.

The project was funded in part by a $28.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand and upgrade the production of lithium materials for advanced transportation batteries.

As of October 2021, the Albemarle Corporation Lithium Operation at Silver Peak[17] employs around 100 people extracting heavy brine and is currently the only operating source of lithium in the United States,[18] and supplying 1% of the world's output.

[19] The town was featured on a show called "Welcome To Murdertown" which revolves around the disappearance and murder of Charlie Kinkle by local methamphetamine users, Jason Taaffe and Coleman Ward, who were delusional from years of methamphetamine use .

[20] During California's 1999 electric power crisis in the first major act of the power crisis causing an outage on March 25, 1999, Enron energy traders allegedly rerouted 2,900MW (megawatts) of electricity destined for California to this small Nevada community.