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  2. Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    The refuge contains the very active and popular Virgin Valley Opal Mining District whose mineral rights were grandfathered-in with the establishment of the sanctuary. [3] Rockhounds search for precious opal, agates, petrified wood, carnelian, obsidian, rhyolite, jasper, hyalite opal, and psilomelane, among other semiprecious gemstones.

  3. Virgin Valley - Wikipedia

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    The Virgin River drains southwest Utah and southeast Nevada; parts of Arizona, especially the Arizona Strip region drain southwards into the Virgin River and Valley. The Virgin Valley begins as the Virgin River exits the Virgin River Gorge between the Beaver Dam Mountains and Wilderness north, and the northeast of the Virgin Mountains on the ...

  4. Opal - Wikipedia

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    The largest producing mines of Virgin Valley have been the famous Rainbow Ridge, [41] Royal Peacock, [42] Bonanza, [43] Opal Queen, [44] and WRT Stonetree/Black Beauty [45] mines. The largest unpolished black opal in the Smithsonian Institution, known as the "Roebling opal", [46] came out of the tunneled portion of the Rainbow Ridge Mine in ...

  5. World's most expensive opal literally glows in the dark - AOL

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    Meet the "Virgin Rainbow" – perhaps the finest and certainly the most expensive opal on record. It literally glows in the dark. In fact, as it gets darker around the opal, the opal appears ...

  6. Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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    Ruby Marsh is a wetlands area within the national refuge, which serves as a nesting area for "the greater sandhill crane and trumpeter swan".In 1972, Ruby Marsh, which is located within the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, was designated as a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior.

  7. Mount Charleston Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    The Mount Charleston Wilderness Area is located west of Las Vegas in the southern part of the state of Nevada in the western United States.It was created by the U.S. Congress in 1989 under the provisions allowed by the Wilderness Act of 1964, and is managed by both the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.

  8. List of active gold mines in Nevada - Wikipedia

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    In 2020 mining overall contributed $9.5 billion to the state's economy, $8.4 billion from gold and silver mining (all silver produced in Nevada is as a by-product from gold mining). Gold production from Nevada was higher than any other U.S. state, 4,632,690 troy ounces (144,090 kg) in 2020 (a decrease of 4.8% on 2019), accounting for 76% of ...

  9. Bonnie Claire, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Bonnie Claire is a ghost town located in Nye County, Nevada. [1] The settlement is located on the edge of Sarcobatus Flat adjacent to Nevada State Route 267.The mines of Slate Ridge lie to the northwest and the northernmost spur of the Amargosa Range, the Grapevine Mountains, is just to the south of the townsite.

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