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Film transparency of an open-pit copper mine, Ruth, Nevada, August, 1937

Date
1937-08
Description
An open-pit copper mine located in Ruth, Nevada. Surface mining is done by removing (stripping) surface vegetation, dirt, and, if necessary, layers of bedrock in order to reach buried ore deposits. Techniques of surface mining include: open-pit mining, which is the recovery of materials from an open pit in the ground, quarrying, identical to open-pit mining except that it refers to sand, stone and clay; strip mining, which consists of stripping surface layers off to reveal ore/seams underneath; and mountaintop removal, commonly associated with coal mining, which involves taking the top of a mountain off to reach ore deposits at depth. Most (but not all) placer deposits, because of their shallowly buried nature, are mined by surface methods. Finally, landfill mining involves sites where landfills are excavated and processed.

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William J. Moore Jr. Mining and Real Estate Papers

Identifier
MS-00224
Abstract

The William J. Moore Jr. papers (1925-1974) consist of mining publications, maps of mine locations, production reports, agreements, sales contracts of various ores, property claims, and correspondence. Also included are housing plans, maps, agreements, and financial papers for Westchester Gardens housing tract in Las Vegas, Nevada, estimates and analysis for a 500 room Las Vegas resort hotel.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Pershing Quicksilver Works interior, Rochester Mining District, Nevada, October 10, 1927

Date
1927-10-10
Description
The interior of Pershing Quicksilver Works, Rochester Mining District, 20 miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. Taken during construction.

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Elmer J. Chute's map of U.S. patent and location surveys in the Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda and Nye Counties (Nev.), 1907

Date
1907
Description
Scale [ca. 1:22,800. 1 in. to approx. 1900 feet] ; 1 map : col. ; 66 x 82 cm., folded to 18 x 9 cm ; Includes index Includes township and range grid ;

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Photograph of Ward charcoal ovens, White Pine County, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date
1960 to 1961
Description
The Ward charcoal ovens are one of many tourist attractions in White Pine County. These historic remnants of the old mining days in the West are located just outside of Ely.

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View of Cul-de-sac at Mt. Diablo Mine, Nevada: photographic print

Date
1967-06
Description
From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240). Office and superintendent's house (collapsed), taken from top of tailings dump near ruins of hoisting works building.

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Mining operation: photographic print

Date
1909 (year uncertain) to 1988 (year uncertain)
Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series V. Smoky Valley, Nevada and Round Mountain, Nevada -- Subseries V.C. Lofthouse-Berg Families (Round Mountain). View of a mining operation believed to be located somewhere in central Nevada, although the exact location and date are unknown. Possibly circa 1900s-1930s.

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Film transparency of Olive Lake, Herbert Squires, and Charles P. Squires, Mount Charleston, Nevada, 1912

Date
1912
Description
Black and white image of Olive Lake and two others, presumed to be Herbert Squires and his father, Charles P. Squires, at the Squires' mine at Mount Charleston near Las Vegas. Transcribed notes from Special Collections photo inventory: “Charleston 1912. Olive, Herbert, & Dad at his mine, 2 miles on up the Canyon.”

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Photograph of blister copper being poured at Kennecott Copper Corporation, McGill, Nevada, 1960-1961

Date
1960 to 1961
Description
The end product, blister copper, is being poured from holding furnace into conveyor belt molds. Each bar weighs approximately 400 pounds and contains 99.4 percent copper.

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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Sadie George

Date
1925-02 to 1925-03
Description
This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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