Reno's 1872 Time Capsule Includes Gold Rush Lore

June 2019 by Associated Press

The Reno Masonic Lodge was built along the railroad tracks back when Ulysses S. Grant was president and shortly after the Comstock Lode of gold and silver was struck in Virginia City.

The Paragenesis of Gold & Silver Deposits

March 2015
…if you are game for digging in and learning more about the intricate details of how gold deposits form, then let’s jump right in.

Exploring A Historic Lode Mine

August 2016
Climbing up the debris, I pointed my flashlight up a shaft ascending straight up as far as my light would shine. It was the stope of the pay shoot leading to the old tunnel above!

The Giant King Mine

July 2014
Most gold-bearing veins in this region are controlled by fractures associated with the Melones Fault, a late Cretaceous structure that is 108 to 127 million years old.

The Pearce Mineralized Area, Dragoon Mountains, Arizona

July 2013
...I would bet considerably more lode gold and silver remains to be found in this area, and there are possibilities for small placers and nugget shooting.

Nevada's Silver City Gold District—Part I

March 2016

The name Silver City is quite ironic as it doesn’t really fit the area’s metal production. The area encompassing the Silver City district is a great, stand-alone gold district, where the production value of gold has been much more than that of silver. Since the initial discovery of gold-bearing veins in the mid-1850s, the area has been a center of continuous small and large-scale gold production.

All About Minerals

November 2015
There are several common ways that new mineral crystals form and grow. Perhaps the simplest is when minerals form through the cooling of molten rock and the atoms bond together into mineral crystals.

Critical Minerals: Gold

August 2011
A few quick calculations show that approximately 11 tons of gold are lost each year just in the manufacture of new cell phones.

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