Mines and Mining Operations

Eocene dike in the Betze pit
Photographer: Jon Price May-00

Jurassic dikes in the Betze pit
Photographer: Jon Price May-00

Eocene dike (mineralized) in the Betze pit. Mike Ressel for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price May-00

Betze pit in May 2000
Photographer: Jon Price May-00

Experimental biooxidation-bioleaching reactor at the Gold Quarry Mine
Photographer: Jon Price 1995

Portal to the adit for the Carlin East Mine. Mine geologist Heide Mertig, Professor Richard Kyle (Univ. of Texas at Austin), and NBMG geologists Larry Garside, Chris Henry, and Steve Castor for scale.
Photographer: Jon Price 1997

View of the Carlin East adit and reduced ore under oxidized ground
Photographer: Jon Price ~1995

Exploration drilling at Newmont's Leeville deposit on the Carlin trend, Eureka County
Photograph courtesy of Newmont Mining Company 1998

Geologic map of the Betze pit
Photographer: Jon Price 2000

Oxidized ore on top of reduced ore at the Gold Acres Mine
Photographer: Jon Price 1991

Gold pour at the Rawhide Mine
Photographer: Jon Price 2000

Haul truck at MinExpo in Las Vegas
Photographer: Jon Price 2000

Haul truck at MinExpo in Las Vegas
Photographer: Terri Garside 2000

Portal the Ken Snyder underground gold-silver mine, Midas area, Elko County
Photographer: Alan Coyner ~1999

Headframes at the Meikle Mine
Photographer: Jon Price Aug-96

Operations in a Newmont open-pit mine
Photographer: David Tejada. Image © David X. Tejada, available from the photographer at www.tejadaphoto.com 1998

Atomic absorption spectrophotometers in Newmont's robotic assay lab, Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County
Photograph courtesy of Newmont Mining Company ~1998

Sequence of photographs from a mine blast at the Rawhide Mine
Photographer: Jon Price 2000

Roadheader (continuous mining machine) underground on the Carlin trend
Photograph courtesy of Newmont Mining Company ~1998

Exposure of the Roberts Mountains thrust in the Carlin Mine, Eureka County. This thrust fault is a geological structure in the Carlin trend.
Photographer: Jon Price ~1995

Round Mountain Mine, Nye County
Photographer: Jon Price ~1990

School bus at the adit of the underground Bullfrog Mine, Nye County
Photographer: Jon Price Spring 1996

Headframe at the Tonopah mining park, Nye County
Photographer: Jon Price 1996

Cyanide heap-leaching operation at the Wind Mountain Mine
Photographer: Jon Price 1991

Wire gold with quartz, Olinghouse Mine, Washoe County
Photographer: Jon Price 1999

Haul trucks in a Newmont open-pit mine
Photographer: David Tejada. Image © David X. Tejada, available from the photographer at www.tejadaphoto.com 1998

Newmont's Twin Creeks Mine Megapit 250-hole blast pattern at south layback
Photographer: DD LaPointe May 2, 2006

Newmont's Twin Creeks Mine Megapit showing dark gray, high grade, sulfide ore in bottom of pit, with reddish oxidized ore overlying sulfide ore.
Photographer: DD LaPointe May 2, 2006

Newmont's Twin Creeks Mine Megapit 250-hole blast at south layback.
Photographer: DD LaPointe May 2, 2006

Newmont's Twin Creeks Mine Megapit, north end showing backfilling on the right.
Photographer: DD LaPointe May 2, 2006m

Tejada Photography (source of copyrighted, high-quality mining photographs)

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