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Posted: 30 May 2014

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Mound House Mine

Mound House Mine
Outside (yes!) Mound House, Nevada. Altho it's not far from the Comstock, it's mining an industrial mineral--gypsum--not gold or silver. Telephoto view--the powerlines were unfortunately placed!
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 slgwv
slgwv club
This is the Mound House gypsum mine, which is (yes) outside Mound House, Nevada. It's not far from Gold Hill--I've put it on the map.
10 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
Yeah, I have a few pix of the brand new Comstock project in the Gold HIll collection. We like the summers up here better than southern Nevada--but there _is_ a winter! ;)
10 years ago.
 RHH
RHH club
Quite a shot! Interesting to see this area.
10 years ago.
 slgwv
slgwv club
Thanks! One of the few commodity mines that Chinese competition hasn't yet put out of business...
10 years ago.
 Thérèse
Thérèse club
comme la nature est maltraitée !!!
10 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
I find it interesting that the mine is in a hillside, the largest gypsum mine here is in a dry lake.
10 years ago.
slgwv club has replied to tiabunna club
Gypsum is often an evaporite mineral (i.e., precipitated by evaporation), so lake beds are not an uncommon occurrence! Here, tho, the gypsum seems to be associated with volcanic activity, according to a quick skim of the relevant section of Nevada Bureau of Mines & Geology Bull. 75, "Geology and mineral deposits of Lyon, Douglas, and Ormsby Counties, Nevada."
10 years ago.

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