Mineral County, Nevada
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- Aurora — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Nevada's most substantial but least-visited ghost town ruins. Produced $30M in silver-gold, was claimed simultaneously by both California and Nevada, and Mar…
- Aurora Crater — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Pleistocene basaltic crater in the Aurora–Bodie volcanic field, the late-stage vent that capped a long Miocene-to-Pleistocene eruptive history around the Aur…
- Belleville — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
1873–1890s mill town built by the Northern Belle Mining Company to process Candelaria silver ore. Twin 20-stamp mills (Lower 1875, Upper 1876), newspaper, an…
- Bovard — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Short-lived 1908 silver camp in the Gabbs Valley Range founded by Rawhide prospectors after Al Bovard’s discovery. A rival tent town (Lorena) briefly compete…
- Broken Hills — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Small silver camp in the Mineral County hills with stone foundations and scattered ruins in a barren landscape. Documented by desert4wd.com with 15 site photos.
- Candelaria — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Silver mining camp producing over $5M in the 1880s in the Monte Cristo Range. Stone ruins line a barren hillside and a historic cemetery has legible headston…
- Lucky Boy — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Silver-lead camp on the east flank of the Wassuk Range above Hawthorne, born from a 1906 road-crew ore discovery and rushed in 1909. Population briefly near …
- Marietta — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
A borax and salt mining camp in the Mineral County desert with extensive ruins documented in 35 desert4wd.com photos. Nearby salt marsh makes for an unusual …
- Mount Grant — Geology · Mineral County, NV
High summit of the Wassuk Range above Walker Lake—a steep fault-block massif with classic Basin-and-Range relief. Ridge and road approaches offer geology and…
- Pilot Cone — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Isolated volcanic cone rising above the Rawhide Hills / Koegel Hills north of Walker Lake country—a landmark cinder-and-boulder summit on the Pilot Cone 7.5′…
- Pilot Mountains — Copper Minerals — Rockhound · Mineral County, NV
Copper-bearing geology in the Pilot Mountains produces turquoise, malachite, and azurite. Old mine dumps yield copper mineral float for patient collectors on…
- Rawhide — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
Gold rush town that exploded to 10,000 people in 1907-08 then vanished. Tex Rickard ran a saloon here before building Madison Square Garden. Very little rema…
- Rhodes Salt Marsh — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Playas and salt flats of the historic Virginia Salt Marsh, mined from 1862 when camels hauled salt to Comstock mills—later a Carson & Colorado railroad stop …
- Sodaville — Ghost Town · Mineral County, NV
US-95-side freight and railroad hub that served Candelaria, Tonopah, and Goldfield traffic from the soda-spring oasis once known as Soda Springs. Today a thi…
- Sportsmans Beach — Natural · Mineral County, NV
Primary developed recreation site on the west shore of Walker Lake, a rare perennial Great Basin lake along US-95 north of Hawthorne. BLM Walker Lake Recreat…
- Teels Marsh — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Broad alkaline playa and historic borax source in southwestern Mineral County, now part of the Marietta Wild Burro Management Area on BLM land. Late-19th-cen…
- Walker Lake Shoreline — Rockhound · Mineral County, NV
Walking the Walker Lake shores and surrounding volcanic hills turns up agate, chalcedony, petrified wood, and occasional turquoise. Easy access from Hwy 95. …