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Eastern Nevada

Eastern Nevada, including Great Basin National Park, the Basin and Range National Monument, and the Ruby and Schell Creek mountain ranges

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DRV Mine

DRV Mine

A few years ago, we visited an immense underground mine, spending hours underground exploring its twisting passageways late into the night. The haulage adit is a steep 800-foot decline to the main body of workings. That is a long drop just to get to the start of the mine! Once

Jackrabbit Mine

Jackrabbit Mine

This mine was worked as early as the 1880s and produced $2.5M dollars before 1906. It continued to be active until 1959. That is a long time, and total production could be as high as $10M, but some of the recorded production is lost to history. That’s a

Bristol Silver Mine

Bristol Silver Mine

This mine is extensive, and we didn't get the chance to explore it all. Most of the ore in this mine was mined from the 1920s to the 1950s, netting millions in profits. The main shaft is over 1,700 ft deep, with greater than thirteen miles of

Hillside Mine

Hillside Mine

On a trip to Eastern Nevada, I hiked to the top of a mountain in search of this remote backcountry mine. It was still early in the season, and plenty of snow was on the ground. On the north slope, I fell into some snowdrifts up to my waist! I

Caselton Mill

Caselton Mill

The mine, also known as the Combined Metals Mine, was first discovered in 1864 as a high-grade silver deposit. Prior to 1941, the ores were milled in Utah, which was costly to transport, but in 1937, an electric transmission line was put in from Hoover Dam just for the mines

Scheelite Chief Mine

Scheelite Chief Mine

I’ve wanted to check this mine in the Great Basin region of Nevada since I first read about it many years ago. We first visited it in 2010, and it turned out to be an excellent find. There is an empty mining camp with a minor amount of equipment,

Delamar Mine

Delamar Mine

The mines at Delamar are extensive. Most of the claims were once separate mines, but Captain De Lamar bought all of them and connected them. I’ve been here a few times over the years and it’s still a great mine. There are huge stope rooms, square set timbering,