Nevada's twentieth-century mining boom:  Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely
By: by Russell R. Elliott.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Mineral industries -- Nevada.
Description: Mining in Nevada. Beginning in 1859, the Comstock Lode produced silver and gold. After those declined, the next mining was south and east, in the Tonopah - Goldfield - Ely area in the 1900s. The mineral sought was copper. History covered the discoveries, the growth, the decline, and the labor issues.