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3. Bonanza Opal Mine. Nevada. Bonanza Opal Mine in Nevada’s Virgin Valley is the ideal destination if you’re looking to combine treasure hunting with a little rest and relaxation. The mine ...
There are two Virgin Valleys in Nevada. This article is mostly about the Southern valley, which is Northeast of Las Vegas along I-15. The Northern valley is on the opposite end of the State near the Oregon border. The two valleys are approximately 600 miles apart. The Opal mines are located in the Northern valley. [1]
John Loughead. . (m. 1886) . ; Mr. Guttierez. Flora Haines Loughead (later, Flora Gutierrez; 1855–1943) was an American writer, farmer, and miner from Wisconsin. She became the "Opal Queen" of Virgin Valley. [1] Flora's son Allan was the founder of American aerospace company the Lockheed Corporation.
The largest producing mines of Virgin Valley have been the famous Rainbow Ridge, [40] Royal Peacock, [41] Bonanza, [42] Opal Queen, [43] and WRT Stonetree/Black Beauty [44] mines. The largest unpolished black opal in the Smithsonian Institution, known as the "Roebling opal", [45] came out of the tunneled portion of the Rainbow Ridge Mine in ...
John William Mackay (November 28, 1831 – July 20, 1902) was an Irish-American industrialist who rose from rags to riches. Born into abject poverty and raised in the slums of New York City, Mackay became one of the four Bonanza Kings, a partnership which capitalized on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode in Nevada, making him one of the richest Americans in his time.
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Treasure Hill is an east-jutting spur of the White Pine Range of White Pine County in the east central region of the U.S. state of Nevada. [ 1][ 2] It lies to the east of Mount Hamilton and to the northwest of Mokomoke Hill. It is noted for a silver mining boom in the late 1860s: between 1867 and 1880, the total production from area mines was ...
The Virginia City depicted on Bonanza was located at RKO Forty Acres in Hollywood. It was the locale of the 1940 film Virginia City, set during the Civil War, and starring Errol Flynn. The city appears in the 1944 film The Adventures of Mark Twain. The city during its mining boom was the setting for most of the 1946 James M. Cain novel Past All ...