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plaque № 48798

Ruth, NV, United States

Copper Country. The famed open-pit copper mines of eastern Nevada, including the Liberty Pit, largest in the state, are located two miles south of this point. Through the first half of the twentieth century, this area produced nearly a billion dollars in copper, gold, and silver. The huge mounds vis

ible from here are waste rock, which was removed to uncover the ore.Two miles east of here, near Lane City, was the Elijah, the first mine discovered in the Robinson Mining District. Lane City, origin

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