Kamma Mountains
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The Kamma Mountains are a mountain range in Pershing County
Pershing County, Nevada
Pershing County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was 6,693. Its county seat is Lovelock. The county was named after army general John J. Pershing . It was formed from Humboldt County in 1919, and the last county to be established in...

, 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...

. The ghost town and railroad siding at Sulphur, Nevada
Sulphur, Nevada
Sulphur, Nevada, is a Nevada ghost town that was a Feather River Route station in the Black Rock Desert along the Kamma Mountains.-References:...

 is on the west side of the Kamma Mountains at the eastern edge of the Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert is an arid region in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan...

 playa.

The Kamma Mountains are the site of Nevada's Sulphur Mining District. Allied Nevada Gold Corporation operates the Hycroft Gold Mine, a strip mine
Surface mining
Surface mining , is a type of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed...

 in the Kamma Mountains. Allied Nevada re-opened the mine in 2008 after acquiring it from Vista Gold Corporation.

Jungo Road (State Route 49)
Nevada State Route 49
State Route 49, also known as Jungo Road, is an unimproved road from State Route 447 near Gerlach east to Winnemucca via Sulphur and Jungo...

 connects east through the Kamma Mountains to Winnemucca
Winnemucca, Nevada
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 7,174 people, 2,736 households, and 1,824 families residing in the city. The population density was 867.5 people per square mile . There were 3,280 housing units at an average density of 396.6 per square mile...

 and south to Gerlach
Gerlach-Empire, Nevada
Gerlach-Empire is a census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The combined population was 499 at the 2000 census. A former company town for United States Gypsum Corporation, Empire was once home to more than 750 people. It is part of the Reno–Sparks Metropolitan...

via Sulphur.

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