Large Scale Mining
The Ely Copper-Gold District of Nevada
January 2015 by Chris Ralph
The main ore deposits of the Ely district are associated with an east-west belt of altered and mineralized rocks measuring about one mile wide that extends 8 miles westward from Ely.
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