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View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... Copper Kettle Canyon is a valley in the U.S. state of Nevada. [1] Copper Kettle Canyon was named for deposits of ...
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 ...
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 .
The Nevada Northern Railway (reporting mark NN) was a railroad in the U.S. state of Nevada, built primarily to reach a major copper producing area in White Pine County, Nevada. The railway, constructed in 1905–06, extended northward about 140 miles (230 km) from Ely to connections with the Western Pacific Railroad at Shafter and Southern ...
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 ...
In 1878, Vermont resident J. W. Long came to White Pine County and soon set up a camp known as "Ely", after discovering gold. [7] The name "Ely" has been credited to several possible origins: Long's hometown of Ely, Vermont; [8] a New York Congressman with the surname Ely, who sent Long as a representative according to local historians; [7] Smith Ely, a Vermont native who financed one of the ...
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]
Yerington is located at the intersection of US 95A and Nevada State Route 208. It is 33 miles (53 km) south of Silver Springs and U.S. Route 50 , 47 miles (76 km) south of Fernley and Interstate 80, 23 miles (37 km) west of Schurz and U.S. Route 95 , and 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Smith Valley .