Map of the Washoe District Showing Mining Claims. David Rumsey
The Canadian company Bre-X Minerals Ltd. didn't know about that when it bought rights to the site in 1993. But after Bre-X hired a high-living geologist to map the ore body, the deposit, along with the fever dreams that accompany gold, grew to monster size—by March 1997 that geologist was talking about a 200-million-ounce resource.
Washoe Smelter Anaconda, Montana Western Mining History
For legal reasons and to make the story more appealing, the movie relocates the company to Reno, Nevada and calls it Washoe Mining Inc. after Washoe County where Reno is located. -Financial Post. The Gold movie changes the name and location of the real company. Calgary-based Bre-X Minerals Ltd. becomes Washoe Mining Inc. based out of Reno, Nevada.
10 Rare Photos Of Nevada Mines From The Past
The map below of the Washoe Mining Region printed in 1860 is one of the earliest maps of the region showing its relationship to California. The discovery of silver in this region was in June 1859 and by the time this map was printed one sees the area teeming with mining claims, discovered veins, and towns such as Virginia City, Gold Hill, and.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company's Washoe Smelter / HipPostcard
But for legal and mass-appeal reasons, the company in the film is not Calgary-based Bre-X, but fictitious Reno, Nev.-based Washoe Mining Inc. Though Canadians have long said the Bre-X story played out like a movie script, like most Canadian legends, its juicy plot was little known outside the mining community south of the border.
The giant mining prospector in Washoe Valley, Nevada Stock Photo Alamy
Parkinson's map of the Comstock Lode & Washoe mining claims Description: America Transformed: In 1859, major deposits of silver known as the Comstock Lode were discovered on the Nevada side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Mining spurred the rapid growth of Virginia City, which reached a population of 15,000 by 1863, prompting Nevada's statehood.
digital history project Washoe Mining Area Virginia City
Into the mountain-bound mining camp of Grass Valley, California, rode a weary traveler late in June, 1859. He had jogged more than 150 miles over the massive Sierra Nevada from the Washoe country in western Utah Territory. With him, mostly as a curiosity, he carried some odd-looking chunks of gold-bearing ore.
Drone footage of the Jones & Kincaid Mine, Washoe County, Nevada. YouTube
All 460 mines in Washoe County, Nevada (Facility) United States Platinum Refinery . Adobe Springs Prospects . Amalgam. Western Mining History is your source for over 116,000 mines in the western states. Nevada Gold. Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves.
The Olinghouse District in Washoe County, NV Gold Mining Areas
Set in the 80s, Gold centers on Kenny Wells (McConaughey), the luck-deprived owner of the once-successful Washoe mining company. In the five years since taking over the business from his father (Craig T. Nelson), Kenny has managed to run it into the ground with his drunken exploits and inability to drum up interest in unpromising mining.
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The Washoe County lands bill has something for everyone to love, and something for everyone to loathe. In a recent op-ed in The Nevada Independent, Eli Turner of the Nevada Mineral Exploration Coalition, who falls on the side of loathing the bill, made a number of false statements about the legislation and my organization's position on it.. Sen. Jacky Rosen recently introduced the Truckee.
Smith mine disaster Montana (Washoe) the Smith Mine disast… Flickr
Bre-X is the Canadian gold mining stock of the century, having gone from 30 cents to $170 in two years, and made past Canadian plays like Hemlo, Stikine and Golden Star seem sadly insubstantial.
Sugar Loaf Mining District, Washoe, Nevada Stock Photo Alamy
The story of David Walsh and the Bre-X mining scandal was made into a film and released last week in the UK under the name Gold. For legal reasons, Gold changed the names and locations of those involved in the scandal, with the story moving to Reno, Nevada. David Walsh's character was changed to Kenny Wells (played by Matthew McConaughey.
Map of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe mining claims in Storey & Lyon
Gold is a 2016 American crime drama film directed by Stephen Gaghan and written by Patrick Massett and John Zinman.The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Édgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Toby Kebbell, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach and Bruce Greenwood.The film is loosely based on the true story of the 1993 Bre-X mining scandal, when a massive gold deposit was supposedly discovered.
Plate 2. Geological Map of the Washoe Mining District, Geology C. King
GSPTSE. -0.03%. GLD. -0.11%. A Hollywood movie set for release this week, loosely based on the real life story about how the world's biggest gold discovery turned out to be the largest fraud in.
A Peep At Washoe Third Paper Western Mining History
In about 1907 some promising prospects were discovered along the the old Ophir Toll Road east of Washoe Valley. The mining district became known as Jumbo. A few years earlier, an elephant was.
10 Rare Photos Of Nevada Mines From The Past
Bre-X was a group of companies in Canada. Bre-X Minerals Ltd., a major part of Bre-X based in Calgary, was involved in a major gold mining scandal when it reported it was sitting on an enormous gold deposit at Busang [], East Kalimantan, Indonesia.Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and in October 1995 announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered, sending its stock price.
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Taking its plotline cues from a 1997 mining scandal involving Canadian outfit Bre-X, the feature relocates the home-company action from Calgary to Reno, aka "the biggest little city in the world.