Western Nevada and Black Rock

This fairly remote and old silver, lead and zinc (with some traces of gold and copper) mine is a pretty ...
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We recently visited an interesting medium-sized mine out in middle-of-nowhere Nevada. The mine is developed by multiple shafts and drops ...
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I couldn’t find any information about this little mine and it was a surprise when I came across it. We ...
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In September 2015, we packed our daypacks full of water and took a long hike traversing a mountain range. We ...
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This is a neat little cabin that we have visited from time to time. It is surprisingly well furnished for ...
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In October 2010, we visited a very isolated geoglyph way out in the Great Basin desert, all by itself, on ...
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This is a collection of two sites that are very close together in a remote corner of western Nevada. They ...
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Around 2007, I read a book on Nevada mining history that had a photo with a wooden ore car sitting ...
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Agai Pah is the Northern Paiute name for Trout Lake or Walker Lake as we know it today. This is ...
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I first read about this site years ago in a book about mine camps in Nevada. The book didn’t give ...
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These mines of this district were first worked in the 1860s when the discovery of the Comstock brought miners to ...
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In 2006, we took a side trip to check out the remains of a hidden 10 stamp and cyanide mill ...
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Lead-silver and gold ore was first discovered here in 1874. The little camp of Lodi was formed. The town had ...
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Located in 1946, this tungsten mine is a fairly recent discovery. In 1949-50, the mine was worked by Carl Cooper ...
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We recently returned to Nevada to do some mine exploring. We found a couple of new sites and made some ...
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This is a mine we went to at the end of a four-day trip to western Nevada a few years ...
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We first visited the Silver Dyke mine in 2001. Since then, I have returned a few times but I should ...
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I have not been able to find much information on this mill. It looks like it is an old five-stamp ...
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Boxy and I recently re-visited this interesting little tungsten mine out in central Nevada. I first visited this mine in ...
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This is a small native hunting and habitation site I went to check out. It is along a prehistoric deer ...
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