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Posted: 14 Jun 2013

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Round Mountain Mine NV (1988)

Round Mountain Mine NV (1988)
Round Mountain mining area.

Looking across the pit to activity on the far side. This is from the former town of Round Mountain and best guess, based on the satellite view, is that the pit is close to a mile wide at the brim.
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 Clint
Clint
Wow.

I'm an ecologically-minded guy, but I'm also a rock nut, so I'm of multiple minds about this. Part of me hates seeing an open pit this big, but another very big part of me would love to get up close to it for a while.
11 years ago.
 Clint
Clint
Turn off the pump, and eventually it becomes a round lake.
11 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Somewhere years back I wrote a piece about such mining, both hating that we have to do that much destruction, but then reminding myself the my camera, car, etc. are all the outcomes of the extraction industry.
11 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
One of the reasons I enjoy camping and exploring is the regular reminder that we are but a fleck in the greater span of events. I do, though, also feel that we should back off from trying to hurry our demise.
11 years ago.

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