Mines and mineral resources -- Nevada

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 171 Collections and/or Records:

Tonopah Extension Mining Company cash ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 90-67
Abstract

This cash account ledger for the company's accounts payable lists name of payee, date, amount paid by company, and bank balance.

Dates: 1925-1938

Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC1206
Abstract

The Tonopah Mining Company was a gold and silver mining company located in Tonopah, Nevada. The collection includes monthly reports, receipts, financial claims, time checks, insurance policies, and drawing of an idler bearing for a conveyor belt between 1906-1915.

Dates: 1906-1915

Records of the Tonopah North Star Tunnel & Development Company

 Collection
Identifier: 85-16
Abstract

Monthly ore shipment reports, payroll listings, cash accounts, operating expenses, and trial balances (1921); and a prospect report and map on the North Star Mine by William B. Daniel, engineer (1913)

Dates: 1913-1921

Minutes of the Trojan Mining Company

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Identifier: NC210
Abstract

Contains authorization for the firm's officers to buy mining property in Storey County and to make contracts. The collection contains material from February 23, 1878 created by the Trojan Mining Company.

Dates: February 23, 1878

Report on the Twin Silver City Mine

 Collection
Identifier: NC191
Abstract

Preliminary report by Charles C. Derby outlines present condition of the mine and gives advice on possible location of ore bodies. The collection contains material from December 24, 1909 created by the Twin Silver City Mine.

Dates: December 24, 1909

Union Consolidated Silver Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC87
Abstract The Union Mine was Part of the North End Mines of the Comstock Lode, the Union was an 1859 stake of 302 feet between the Mexican and Sierra Nevada Mines. Later, 270 additional feet were acquired from the North Ophir claim. Work began in 1860; although the Union had one of the deepest works (at 3350 feet), it was one of the least profitable of the Comstock; by the late 1870s it was producing no ore. Collection contains operational records, including weekly and annual reports of operations...
Dates: 1863-1918

Union Mill and Mining Company vs H. F. Dangberg, et al, case 520

 Collection
Identifier: 82-27
Abstract

In Union Mill and Mining Company vs. H. F. Danberg, et al. case 520, the plaintiff sued to stop the defendants from diverting water, needed to power the company's mills, for agriculture from the Carson River in Nevada. The collection includes the complaints, testimonies of witnesses for plaintiff and defendants, documentary evidence, indexes of ditches involved, defendant's abstracts of title, and judgement. Created by the United States Circuit Court (9th Circuit) between 1889-1897.

Dates: 1889-1897

United Comstock Mining Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 83-07
Abstract The United Comstock Mining Company was a Nevada corporation organized in 1920 as a subsidiary of the Metals Exploration Company that bought up and worked nine Virginia City, Nevada, mines including the Challenge, Challenge-Jacket-Imperial, Confidence, Crown Point, Imperial Consolidated, Imperial Empire, Jacket-Crown Point-Belcher, Overman, and Yellow Jacket mines. The collection contains copies of weekly progress reports that discuss length of tunnels, yields of ore, presence of various...
Dates: 1865-1923

United Comstock Pumping Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: NC89
Abstract

The Comstock Pumping Association was established in 1898 by 28 mine companies in Virginia City. Designed as a means to increase stock values, the purpose of the association was to pump water from the Comstock mines below the Sutro Tunnel level. Records of operation include daily and weekly reports (including Ward Shaft Association, 1910-1912), letters, cashbooks, financial ledgers, and a tunnel account book, 1905-1909.

Dates: 1898-1920