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The Rye Patch Archeological Sites is an 85.4-acre (34.6 ha) historic district near Lovelock, Nevada, United States, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It includes seven contributing sites denoted by archeological site Smithsonian trinomial codes 26Pe365, 26Pe366, 26Pe388, 26Pe390, 26Pe428, 26Pe435, and 26Pe450
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Four miners discovered the Gold Hill outcropping, at the head of Gold Canyon, making placer claims after finding traces of gold on January 28, 1859. They were James Finney ("Old Virginny"; a contemporary rumor was that he changed his name from Fennimore to Finney after murdering a man), John Bishop ("Big French John"), Aleck Henderson, and Jack ...
Rye Patch State Recreation Area is a 2,400-acre (970 ha) state park unit of Nevada, United States, adjoining Rye Patch Reservoir, an 11,000-acre (4,500 ha) impoundment on the Humboldt River, and the smaller Pitt-Taylor Reservoirs.
Trail extends from Rye Patch northwest to state line 41°11′45″N 119°16′36″W / 41.195833°N 119.276667°W / 41.195833; -119.276667 ( Applegate-Lassen Black Rock Desert
The United States ranks fourth, behind China, Australia and Russia. The Nevada mining industry supported an average 15,136 direct employees in 2020, with about 75,000 additional jobs related to providing goods and services needed by the mining industry. [1] [2] The following is a list of active gold mines in Nevada.
Gold mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, is a major industry, and one of the largest sources of gold in the world. In 2018 Nevada produced 5,581,160 troy ounces (173.6 tonnes), representing 78% of US gold and 5.0% of the world's production.
Within the district, gold rush settlements quickly arose near the mines, and Rhyolite became the largest. [29] It sprang up near the most promising discovery, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, which in February 1905 produced ores assayed as high as $16,000 a ton, [30] equivalent to $543,000 a ton in 2023. [27]