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Copper mining started in 1866 and the Copper Canyon Mine operated from 1917 until 1955. The Tomboy-Minnie ore deposits were developed after the depletion of the West ore body, which was developed after the depletion of the East ore body. Open-pit mining started in 1967. Placer gold was discovered in 1912. Mining switched from the copper-gold ...
Named peaks include the high point, Copper Mountain, and two lesser peaks, Silver Mountain and Coon Creek Peak. [3] It is considered by some to be a sub-range of the Jarbidge Mountains . The valley of Coon Creek lies to the north, with Copper Basin to the east, the valley of Copper Creek to the southeast and the Bruneau River valley to the ...
History of Nevada (2nd ed. 1987) online edition; Green, Michael S. Nevada: A History of the Silver State (2015). Hulse, James W. The Nevada Adventure (6th ed., 1990), for middle schools; Mack, Effie Mona. Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times through the Civil War (1936) Rowley, William D.
Grandview is the type locality for grandviewite, a copper aluminium silicate. [4] [5] Grandview produced exceptionally fine mineral specimens of cyanotrichite, brochantite, chalcoalumite, and many other copper and uranium minerals. These specimens are now rare, as mineral collecting is not permitted in the National Park. [4]
The Copper Basin area was the original location of the Battle Mountain mining camp which later moved to the current location on the Humboldt as a mining support town. To the southwest about 4.2 miles (6.8 km) in Galena Canyon, the mining camps of Bannock, Copper Canyon and Galena were later developed with the Bannock camp established in 1909.
El Dorado Canyon is a canyon in southern Clark County, Nevada famed for its rich silver and gold mines. The canyon was named in 1857 by steamboat entrepreneur Captain George Alonzo Johnson when gold and silver was discovered here. [2] [3] It drains into the Colorado River at the former site of Nelson's Landing. [3]
In 1875 [2] or 1876, [3] the Battle Mountain Mining Company built a 30-ton concentrator nearby at the mouth of Willow Creek to serve the mines of Copper Canyon. The concentrator closed in 1876. The concentrator closed in 1876.
Coppereid, also known as White Cloud City is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada. It had a total population of 40 people. It had a total population of 40 people. The site of Coppereid is south of Lovelock , east of the Carson Sink in the Stillwater Range .