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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Gold mining in Nevada, Mines in Nevada, Mining communities in Nevada, Mining museums in Nevada, Goodsprings, Nevada, Groom Lake, Rhyolite, Nevada, Comstock Lode, Cortez Gold Mine, List of active gold mines in Nevada, Carson and Colorado Railway, Silver mining in Nevada, Nelson, Nevada, Osceola Ditch, Anaconda Copper Mine, Poeville, Nevada, Weed Heights, Nevada, Goldstrike mine, Potosi Mining District, Clark County Heritage Museum, Bullfrog, Nevada, Berlin Historic District, Sutro Tunnel, Dun Glen, Nevada, Carlin Unconformity, The Buena Vista Iron Ore District, Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, Homestake Mine, Blair, Nevada, Getchell Mine, Columbus, Nevada, Belleville, Nevada, Miller's, Nevada, Star City, Nevada, Empire and the Carson River mills. Excerpt: Rhyolite, Nevada - a.new, #quickbar a.new/* cache key: enwiki: resourceloader: filter: minify-css:5: f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Rhyolite, Nevada Rhyolite Mercantile, an abandoned general storeThe town is named for rhyolite, an igneous rock composed of light-colored silicates, usually buff to pink and occasionally light gray. It belongs to the same rock class, felsic, as granite but is much less common. The Amargosa River, which flows through Beatty, gets its name from the Spanish word for "bitter," amargo. In its course, the river takes up large amounts of salts, which give it a bitter taste. "Bullfrog" was the name Frank "Shorty" Harris and Ernest "Ed" Cross, the prospectors who started the Bullfrog gold rush, gave to their mine. As quoted by Robert D. McCracken in A History of Beatty, Nevada, Harris said during a 1930 interview for Westways magazine, "The rock was green, almost like turquoise, spotted with big chunks of yellow metal, and looked a lot like the back of a fro...
