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Posted: 09 Mar 2009

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Nevada Nevada

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Silver Peak district •
Esmeralda County •
Nevada •
Blair •
ghost town •
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mine •
mining •
Au •
gold •

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Blair, Nevada, USA

Blair, Nevada, USA
A short-lived strike around the turn of the last century.
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 tarboat
tarboat club
Silver mining?
10 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
Actually the site of a mill for gold ore, located here because land prices had been driven so high around Silver Peak itself. The ore was gold-bearing quartz veins in the Precambrian Wyman Formation, and was uneconomic by 1915, when Blair was abandoned. There's been new prospecting activity with the recent run-up in gold prices, but as yet no new mining. The currently active mining, a few miles south, is for lithium out of the basinal brines in Clayton Valley:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/album/452665
I put a few of those pix in the group as well.
10 years ago.

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