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The Nevada Mining District Files consist largely of historical and current maps, reports, articles, photographs, correspondence, assays, production reports, and reserve information on all aspects of mining in Nevada. These have largely been donated to the NBMG over the years from individuals, companies, and other government agencies.

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Traveling America's loneliest road: A geologic and natural history tour through Nevada along U.S. Highway 50, with GPS coordinates The history of the Comstock Lode Outline of Nevada mining history
Carlin trend exploration history: Discovery of the Carlin deposit Nevada mining and you: A resource guide, with sections on historical mining camps, modern exploration and mining methods, and an overview of some mineral-producing areas in the state (second edition) PHOTOCOPY The story of Rawhide, Mineral County, Nevada: A little about its people, its mines, its quest for water, and its promoters, who all together made it Nevada's last great mining boom
Mining history and place names of the Comstock area, a field trip guidebook, September 19, 1987 Nevadans: The spirit of the Silver State Aurora: Nevada's ghost city of the dawn
Western Arizona ghost towns Mines of Goldfield, Bullfrog, and other southern Nevada districts Romancing Nevada's past: Ghost towns and historic sites of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties
Old heart of Nevada: Ghost towns and mining camps of Elko County Preserving the glory days: Ghost towns and mining camps of Nye county, Nevada Mines of Lander and Eureka counties
Mines of Cherry Creek and other eastern Nevada districts Mines of the Silver Peak Range, Kawich Range and other southwestern Nevada ranges Nevada ghost towns and desert atlas
Ghost town combined hardback Nevada ghost towns and desert atlas: Volume 2 - southern Nevada - Death Valley Nevada ghost towns and desert atlas: Volume 1 - north
Mines of Tuscarora, Cortez and other northern Nevada districts Mines of Humboldt and Pershing counties Mines of Churchill and Mineral counties
Mines of Battle Mountain, Reese River, Austin and other Nevada districts Mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada Pioneer Mng. Dist., Nye County, Nevada
Map of the White Pine Mining District (includes map of the White Pine Range) Explorations in Nevada and Arizona, explorations and surveys south of the Central Pacific RR Topographic map of the range of mountains containing the Comstock Lode and mining claims and works located thereon
Map of the Peavine copper mines, Washoe County, Nevada The best of Virginia City and the Comstock History of mining in Nevada, a learning unit for use with Project Mine: Nevada history video,  (Instructor's manual)
Nevada and Great Basin areas desktop map LAMINATED Nevada and Great Basin areas desktop map: Teacher's guide Nevada and Great Basin areas desktop map
Nevada mining history: A documentary approach Nevada mining history: A documentary approach The history of fifty years of mining at Tonopah, 1900-1950
Early engineering works contributory to the Comstock Nevada's metal and mineral production (1859-1940, inclusive) Placer mining in Nevada
The mines and mills of Silver City, Nevada PHOTOCOPY The mines and mills of Silver City, Nevada SOFTGOOD Treasure Hill--Portrait of a silver mining camp
DHS1 The story of the Kennedy mining district, Pershing County, Nevada: The people, mining, and economy Adolph Sutro—King of the Comstock Lode and Mayor of San Francisco
Nevada place names Truckee Meadows remembered Before the gold
Nevada place names
Price: $24.95
Mine of her own Nevada Heartland: The Place Names of Carson City, Douglas, Lyon and Storey Counties, Nevada Roadside history of Nevada
Bold women in Nevada history A beautiful mine Life in the old west: life of a miner
A beautiful mine
Price: $12.95
Fee mining and rockhounding adventures in the West The making of a hardrock miner Emigrant Trails: The Long Road to California [PAPERBACK]
The gold rush letters Devils will reign How Nevada began Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah Winnemucca
Price: $19.95
Emigrant trails: The long road to California [HARDCOVER] Gold in them hills Tonopah: Silver camp of Nevada
Gold in them hills
Price: $24.95
   
 
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