Great Basin and Eastern Nevada

This is a small but interesting modern mine camp with some equipment still left on-site. The mine was probably last ...
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We recently visited an immense underground mine; spending hours underground exploring its twisting passageways late into the night. The haulage ...
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After a few days of long drives in Nevada, we ended up at a remote mine that doesn’t see many ...
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This was a huge mine camp with a long history of operation that we were able to get a private ...
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Part of the “Old English” Mine, the tramway hauled ore over the mountain from the mine to the railhead. Only ...
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This is quite a place! This is a huge and strange mine. The sound of underground rivers far below, 4 ...
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I’ve been wanting to check this remote mine in the Great Basin region of Nevada out ever since I first ...
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This mine is extensive. We have not explored it all. Most of the ore in this mine was mined from ...
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This modern gold and silver mill had been in operational stand-by for the last few years. This district and mine, however, are ...
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The Belmont Mill (or Nevada Belmont Mill) had always been high on my list of places to see when I ...
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The mine, also known as the Combined Metals Mine, was first discovered in 1864 as a high-grade silver deposit. Prior ...
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There isn’t too much known about the Crescent Mill or the Rosey mine. This part of Nevada first boomed in ...
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The mining camp of Delamar started out as a small tent camp similar to Helene just a few miles to the north ...
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The mines at Delamar are extensive. They were once separate individual mines but were connected when Captain De Lamar bought ...
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After visiting the Victorine Mine on a trip to Nevada a few years ago, our next big stop was the ...
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On this trip, we were out exploring on the Nevada-Utah state line. This beautiful open country of rolling hills and ...
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Back in 2012, we went on a trip through central Nevada and spent a night in old the mining camp ...
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Early in 2013, while on a trip to Nevada, I hiked to the top of a mountain in search of ...
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Last summer, we visited a pair of petroglyph sites out in central Nevada collectively called Honeymoon Hill. They are close ...
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This mine was worked as early as the 1880s and produced $2.5M dollars before 1906. It continued to be active ...
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