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Map of Las Vegas, Nevada and surrounding Bureau of Land Management areas to the west and north, 1994

Date

1994

Description

'BLM edition, 1994.' 'Surface management status; mineral management status.' '1:100,000-scale topographic map showing highways, roads and other manmade structures; water features; contours and elevations in meters with conversions to feet; BLM recreation sites.' 'Edited and published by the Bureau of Land Management. Base map prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey.' I53:11/4-2

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Photograph album 1, Leon Rockwell Collection, circa 1900s-1910s

Date

1900 to 1910
1905 to 1919

Description

Photographs taken circa 1907-1914 in the Las Vegas, Nevada area, including Fort Callville, and during travels in California; Washington State; Idaho; Montana; and Oregon, with emphasis on Yosemite National Park and Yellowstone National Park. Album also features photographs taken at the 1911 Yakima (Washington) State Fair and in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Goodsprings, Nevada during the same period.

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Photograph album 2, Ferron-Bracken Collection, circa 1905-1935, page 83

Date

1907

Description

Captions: "Colorado River 1907;" "1907;" Moapa 1907;" "In camp Eldorado Cañon 1907;" "Camp. Eldorado Cañon, March 1907."

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Photograph album 2, Ferron-Bracken Collection, circa 1905-1935, page 110

Date

1905 to 1935

Description

Photograph in upper left corner of this page captioned "Old school house at Bingham Ut 1900." Photograph in upper right corner captioned "Asphaltene mine, Fort Duschene, Ut." Photograph in lower right corner captioned "Utah valley."

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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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Photograph of West End Chemical Mine, 1925

Date

1925

Description

West End Chemical Mine, 1925.

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Photograph of mining in Arizona, circa 1930s

Date

1930 to 1939

Description

Mining in Arizona.

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Slide of a gold mining sign, Virginia City, Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

A picture of a "Chicago Nevada Gold Mining Co" sign near Virginia City.

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Slide of a gold mine, Virginia City, Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

A picture of a gold mining building near Virginia City.

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Photograph of men mining in the Bare Mountain Range, Nevada, circa early 1900s

Date

1900 to 1920

Description

Men gather around mining equipment in the Bare Mountain Range in Nevada.

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