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.
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.
The Evan and Kathy Thompson Photograph Collection depicts Beatty, Nevada, Rhyolite, Nevada, and Keane Wonder Mine, California around 1925. The photographs include the Rhyolite Bottle House, mining operations in Rhyolite and Keane Wonder Mine, and citizens of Rhyolite.
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.
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.”