Looking west from Cloudrock Court, Ascaya Boulevard winds its way up the Ascaya luxury home lot development as the sun sets. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.

Looking west from Cloudrock Court, Ascaya Boulevard winds its way up the Ascaya luxury home lot development as the sun sets. Infrastructure for Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.

Newly finished homes line Gracious Way in the Cadence development in Henderson looking south towards Black Mountain. For decades the western neighborhoods of Henderson experienced explosive growth as the city moved from small industrial town clustered around the World War II era plants to Las Vegas suburbs and the state's second largest city. Cadence hopes to change that with its large masterplanned community north of East Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway.

From left to right, F. O. Case, the General Manager at Basic Magnesium, Inc. (BMI), talking to Senator Pat McCarran at the Basic Magnesium, Inc. (BMI) plant in Henderson, Nevada. Case is holding a bus bar in his hands.