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Nevada
Tonopah historic mine dumps
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: pyrargyrite traces.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Silver camp of 1900 whose dumps around town still yield ore specimens
Historic district described in Nevada mining and collector literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open shafts, unstable workings
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