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Rhyolite

Ghost town, United States, founded 1904.

About Rhyolite

Ghost town in Nye County, Nevada.1

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Mines

Led toSilver PeakFollow the region on to a modern operation: Silver Peak.1

Places

An example ofCalicoAnother ghost town in the United States: Calico.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q1889901 (Rhyolite)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Chuquicamata from the ISS by Alexander Gerst (ESA), CC BY-SA 2.0.