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Homestake Mine (Nevada)
Encyclopedia
Homestake Mine is located in the Newberry Mountains
near Searchlight
, Nevada
and is listed on the United States
National Register of Historic Places
for activities between 1850 and 1924. Gold and silver were mined.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1985.
Newberry Mountains (Nevada)
The Newberry Mountains in Nevada are located east of Cal-Nev-Ari and the United States Coast Guard LORAN station in the southern part of the state. The range is Nevada's southernmost named mountain range, and lies to the northwest of the town of Laughlin and west of Lake Mohave...
near Searchlight
Searchlight, Nevada
Searchlight is an unincorporated town in Clark County, Nevada, at the topographic saddle between two mountain ranges.-History:According to Nevada Senator Harry Reid, who has written extensively about his hometown, the most likely story as to how the town received its name was when George Frederick...
, Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
and is listed on the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
for activities between 1850 and 1924. Gold and silver were mined.
History
The mine operated from the 1930s to 1953 and tapped the Silver King Vein.The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1985.