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Hornsilver Giant Mine

Hornsilver Giant Mine

The Hornsilver is a fairly remote silver mine and camp. It was a good producer early on and had its ore hauled to a local mill, but like most mines, it was worked only intermittently. The original road to the camp is long overgrown and washed away. We tried heading

Moho Mine

Moho Mine

This is a mine we went to at the end of a four-day trip to western Nevada a few years ago. It was a great trip, and we met up with Lewis, Bill, Cat, and ghost town author Shawn Hall along the way. We covered some remote territory and hardly

Star of the West Mill

Star of the West Mill

We met up with Dan and drove out to explore a forgotten corner of Nevada’s mining history. We weren’t sure if we would find anything, as is often the case. We ended up driving over one hundred miles (one way) on dirt roads. After battling a steep, rough

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,

Yellow Plug Petroglyphs

Yellow Plug Petroglyphs

This is a small and interesting site, not all that far from Las Vegas, and in an area I wouldn’t have guessed would have many petroglyphs. The name originates from a land outcrop of yellow sandstone that the petroglyphs are on. My photos are from 2008 and 2023. No

Lone Grapevine Petroglyphs

Lone Grapevine Petroglyphs

When I heard about this site, I was eager to see it. The petroglyphs possibly show a historical event or at least contact with white man. Some of them look recent, though, so it is hard to tell just how old they are. After a short hike, we had to

Mouse’s Tank

Mouse’s Tank

This is a neat site inside the Valley of Fire State Park. It is my favorite petroglyph spot in the park. The story of how the tank (a tinaja) was named is interesting, although I’m not sure how accurate it is. I won’t recount it here. The petroglyphs