View of a mining operation in the desert in Pioche, Nevada.

Midway Mine, an underground minerals site in Tonopah, Nevada, is the potential location for silver to be mined. Black smoke rises from the smokestack with the site sitting atop a dirt surface. Written lightly in the center of the photograph reads "Midway Mine, Tonopah Nev." Site Name: Tonopah Midway Mine

Pacific Coast Borax Company mill at Death Valley Junction. This is the south end of the mill, with railroad tracks leading out of the image at the bottom left corner.

Pacific Coast Borax Company's mill near the end of its operations in 1928.

Aerial view of Yellow Pine Mine in Goodsprings, Nevada.

First picture taken in Goldfield, December, 1903. Harrie Taylor (discoverer). Lew Finnegan and John Y. McKane on the Jumbo, from which was taken $100,000 in 47 feet surface, the strike that caused the first rush.

Photograph of mine entrance on Round Mountain (Nev.), early 1900s