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Ore samples from the Copenhagen Claim of the Mustang Extension Mining Company of Manhattan: photographic print

Date

1908 (year approximate) to 1910 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nan Doughty Photograph Collection (PH-00240)

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View of Gold Reed: photographic print

Date

1905 (year approximate)

Description

From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.H. Reed Family (Kawich Mountains, Nevada). Gold Reed, Kawich Mountains, Nye County, Nevada, probably about 1905. It was with a mine in Gold Reed that O.K. Reed made the money to purchase the ranch at Hawes Canyon. The ore at the mine was so rich that a person could stand off 50 or 60 feet and see the gold in the original outcropping; some of the ore sold for $1,000 a ton. Reed was partners in the mine with Jack May and a Mr.Wardle, Tonopah resident Austin Wardle’s father. Jack May and Reed were married to sisters, Mabel and Maude Hanley. 

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Four men outside a mine: photographic print

Date

1905 (year uncertain)

Description

On a Rhyolite trip, the Jackson party inspects a prospect on Bonanza Mountain, early 1905. The Bullfrog Mine can be seen in the distance.

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Entrance to the "Denver Vein," Bullfrog Mine: photographic print

Date

1905

Description

The prospect entrance of the "Denver vein" within the Bullfrog Mine in Rhyolite, Nevada.

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View of Salt mine: photographic print

Date

1870 (year approximate) to 1979 (year approximate)

Description

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."

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Information on the composition of magnesite

Date

1874 to 1944

Archival Collection

Description

This folder is from "Maps and Assorted Documents" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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Goldfield Mineral Map: photograpic print

Date

1905 (year approximate)

Description

Goldfield Mineral Map drawn by May Bradford circa 1905.

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Mining maps: photographic print

Date

1905 (year approximate)

Description

Mining maps drawn by May Bradford circa 1905.

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Mining diagrams: photographic print

Date

1905 (year approximate)

Description

Mining diagrams drawn by May Bradford, around 1905.

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Correspondence, Levi Syphus to Mrs. W.M. Clayton

Date

1940-01

Archival Collection

Description

This folder is from the "Correspondence" file of the Sadie and Hampton George Papers (MS-00434)

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