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Empire Mine State Historic Park is a state-protected mine and park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Grass Valley, California, U.S.The Empire Mine is on the National Register of Historic Places, a federal Historic District, and a California Historical Landmark.
Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is a state park unit preserving Malakoff Diggins, the largest hydraulic mining site in California, United States.The mine was one of several hydraulic mining sites at the center of the 1882 landmark case Woodruff v.
From the start, the Bingham Canyon Mine was one of the leading copper-producing mines in the world, and returned a good profit mining ore with less than two percent copper. [6] Mining by open-pit model using large-scale mechanization was copied by other US mines, in Ely, Nevada (1908), Santa Rita, New Mexico (1910), and Ajo, Arizona (1917).
Nevada City is the county seat of Nevada County, California, United States, 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Sacramento, 84 miles (135 km) southwest of Reno and 147 miles (237 km) northeast of San Francisco.
The town grew quickly. Soon, several stage lines connected it with Nevada City and other mining areas. [4] [5] [6] By 1864, the town had 40–50 buildings, including hotels, stores, shops and saloons. [3] That year, a schoolhouse was built between Red Dog, a mining town about 1 mile to the north, and You Bet with monies raised by subscription. [7]
The larger and more southwesterly Toiyabe National Forest is located in central, western, and southern Nevada and eastern California, in parts of Nye, Lander, Mineral, Lyon, Eureka, Washoe, Douglas, and Clark counties, and the state capital of Carson City in the "Battle Born State" of Nevada; as well as in the adjacent "Golden State" with Mono ...
The Johnson Lake Mine is a former tungsten mine located within the boundaries of Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. Located on the east slope of the southern Snake Range at an elevation above 10,000 ft (3,000 m), the 100 acres (40 ha) historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Copper Kettle Canyon is a valley in the U.S. state of Nevada. [1] Copper Kettle Canyon was named for deposits of copper which were mined beginning in 1908. [2]