slgwv's photos with the keyword: White Pine County

A spectacular water gap/slot canyon north of Ely, Nevada. I suspect it's antecedent--that is, as the ridge rose under the stream it kept cutting down.

13,063 feet/3982 m. Just to the right of center. High point of the Snake Range and centerpiece of Great Basin National Park, Nevada. Seen from the cirque below the peak on the north side. This cirque is still said to contain a rock glacier, and there is perennial ice below the blocky glacial debris in the middle, but it doesn't appear to be active at this point. The cirque is eroded into Late Precambrian quartzite, which accounts for the layering seen in the cliffs and the blocky nature of the erosional debris. I'm sure the spire on the left has a name, but I haven't been able to track it down (maybe I'll just call the park!)

On US 6-50 a few miles outside Ely, Nevada, USA.

On Egan Creek, near the townsite of Cherry Creek, Nevada, with a tributary stream flowing out of the adit. This was a silver producer starting in 1863(!), the first development in the Cherry Creek district. Later the mines around Cherry Creek proper became more productive. Production was from the silver-bearing "Gilligan Ledge" in the Prospect Mountain Quartzite. The mineralization is localized along a major fault. The retrofitted masonry benches were really nice on a hot summer day. Alas, the whole set-up was clobbered in the big flood of 1997. I didn't have a camera to get a picture of the aftermath when I was there in summer 1998, but I got one this year. Alas, nobody has bothered to repair the site in the last 20 years! With this kind of water flow, too, it would have been very difficult to keep this mine working. I'd say it might have been just a drainage adit, but there were ore-car tracks visible in it! So it must've been dry when actually operating.