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Map of Argentite: Red Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County (Nev.),1908

Date

1908

Description

Scale [ca. 1:7,200]. 1 in. equals 600 feet ; 1 map : linen ; 46 x 39 cm

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Map of Searchlight Mining District, Clark County (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

Scale not given ; 1 map ; 61 x 42 cm ; Blueline print ; Shows mineral patents and water rights ;

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Map of the Tonopah Mining District, Nye County (Nev.), 1902

Date

1902

Description

Map of the Tonopah Mining District, Nye County (Nev.), 1902

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Map of the Tonopah Mining District, Nye County (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

Scale [ca.1:12,804. 1 in. to approx. 1,067 ft.] ; 1 map ; on sheet 92 x 106 cm ; Relief shown by hachures ; Title supplied by cataloger ; Probably a preliminary black and white edition of the colored map copyrighted by Bradford and Bradford in 1905

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Map of the Tonopah Mining District, Nye County (Nev.), 1903

Date

1903

Description

Scale [ca. 1:7,200]. 1 in. equals 600 feet ; 1 map ; 17 x 16 cm ; Relief shown by hachures ; Library's copy has some mines cross-hatched in pencil ;

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Map of the Mohawk Mine, 3rd level, Esmeralda County (Nev.), 1900-1925

Date

1900 to 1925

Description

Sectional mining map; hand-drawn and annotated in colored pencil

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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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Slide of the old stamp mill, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

The old stamp mill, location unknown. A stamp mill (or stamp battery or stamping mill) is a type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores. Breaking material down is a type of unit operation. A stamp mill consists of a set of heavy steel (iron-shod wood in some cases) stamps, loosely held vertically in a frame, in which the stamps can slide up and down. They are lifted by cams on a horizontal rotating shaft. On modern mills, the cam is arranged to lift the stamp from the side, so that it causes the stamp to rotate. This evens the wear on the shoe at the foot of the stamp. As the cam moves from under the stamp, the stamp falls onto the ore below, crushing the rock, and the lifting process is repeated at the next pass of the cam. Each one frame and stamp set is sometimes called a "battery" or, confusingly, a "stamp" and mills are sometimes categorized by how many stamps they have, i.e. a "10 stamp mill" has 10 sets. They usually are arranged linearly, but when a mill is enlarged, a new line of them may be constructed rather than extending the line. Abandoned mill sites (as documented by industrial archaeologists) will usually have linear rows of foundation sets as their most prominent visible feature as the overall apparatus can exceed 20 feet in height, requiring large foundations. Stamps are usually arranged in sets of five. Some ore processing applications used large quantities of water so some stamp mills are located near natural or artificial bodies of water. For example, the Redridge Steel Dam was built to supply stamp mills with process water.

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Map of the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye County (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

Scale [ca. 1:39,000. 1 in. to approx. 3,250 feet] ; 1 map : col. ; 45 x 38 cm ; Relief shown by hachures ; "Compliments of the Forward Mining Development Co." ; Properties owned by Patrick Investment Company are marked in red ; Shows railroads, roads, and pipelines ;

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New official map of the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye County (Nev.), 1905

Date

1905

Description

Scale [ca. 1:16,800. 1 inch to approximately 1,400 feet] ; 1 map ; 74 x 109 cm ; Blueline print ; Scale almost illegible ; "Photo. lith. Britton & Rey." ; Photocopy? [United States : s.n., 199-?] ;

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