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Edwin S. Giles stands with two unidentified miners. They hold pickaxes and what appears to be rocks or mineral deposits.

Three Kids Manganese Mine, ca. 1950's.

Noonday Mine (Tecopa Consolidated Mining Co.) 9 miles E. of Tecopa, California on T.R.R.. The stamp on the back of the photo reads: "Mallory Hope Ferrell P. O. Box 2837 Peachtree City, GA 30269."

Nineteen gold bullion bars are stacked atop one another for a photo. Inscription below reads: "Nineteen gold bullion bars having a value of more than $450,000 and taken from one of the Goldfield mines in its boom days are enough to excite anyone. These were the genuine article. Even to Goldfielders they created a sensation. It is every prospector's dream."

From the KLVX Steamboats on the Colorado Photograph Collection (PH-00156). Written on photo sleeve: "Salt mine. (Colorado River area)." Handwritten on verso: "Courtesy Special Collections UNLV."

Wahmonie, NV. Prospect hole. Typewritten on photo sleeve: "PROSPECT HOLE. The fortune-hunters left their mark on the Wahmonie Mining District. Here is one view from the inside of a miner's prospect hole. These Wahmonie photographs were taken by Dick Borden and first published in the NTS News in the 1960s. Borden gave us a valuable photographic history of the NTS." [Caption in N[evada] T[est] S[ite] News Bulletin August 21, 1981 p. 8]

White Pine County's newest town, New Ruth, where most of the houses shown in this picture were moved by Kennecott Copper Corporation, a distance of over two miles to a new location to escape caving action which would have resulted from the Deep Ruth Mine operations. The homes are employee-owned.