Mines in Nevada

At one time, it was the second deepest mine shaft on the planet!

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

A spectacular slot canyon at the northern edge of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

Exhibiting the tallest structure of its type in Nevada, this massive mining complex is frozen in time.

The only United States mine for magnesium carbonate has been operating continuously since the 1930s.

A difficult trail leads to interesting ruins in a remote canyon in the Toiyabe Range.

This silver-mining camp has been active intermittently from the 1860s to the present.

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

Mine your own precious stones.