slgwv's photos with the keyword: Douglas County

Which is in Douglas County, Nevada, despite the name! This mine started as a copper operation in the 1920s, but became much more productive as an iron mine, from the early 1950s to ca. 1970. The mineralization was a magnetite (Fe3O4) body of metamorphic origin. The mine was an open pit, as can be seen. The inset shows a close up of the pit lake in the bottom of the mine. It shows how dry the country is, that the pit lake is so small!

Probably Juniperus occidentalis , Mineral Peak, Douglas Co., Nevada, USA. This tree is actually still alive. Juniper species, along with piñon pine, are the major elements of the patchy scrub forest that occurs on the lower slopes of the mountain ranges in and around the Great Basin. Juniper traditionally was called "scrub cedar," and you still hear old-timers refer to juniper as "cedar."

Mineral Peak, Douglas County, Nevada, USA. Probably a piñon pine, judging by the living trees still around. Looking WNW; Carson Valley in the background.

Just barely into Nevada! Nevada Bureau of Mines Bull. 75 reports that copper sulfides were found in metamorphic host rock.

Transitional to mammatus, I suppose.