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| == Imagery ==
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| == Mining ==
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| Black Rock | |
| Other names: Hardin, Soldier Meadows, Soldier Meadow area
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| County: Humboldt
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| Discovered: 1849 (1863?)
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| Period active: 1858-1860; 1866-1867
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| Commodities: silver, gold, uranium, fluorspar, nitrates
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| Comments: Located at Black Rock, in the vicinity of Hardin City on the west slope of the Black
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| Rock Range, several miles north of Double Hot Springs. Bancroft (1890) placed the original
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| discoveries 1.5 miles from Hardinville. The district includes the Soldier Meadow uranium area
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| of Garside (1973) and the Soldier Meadows nitrate area of Gianella (1945).
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| References: Stretch, 1867, p. 46; Territorial Enterprise, March 7, 1868; Angel, 1881, p. 450;
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| Bancroft, 1890, p. 103; Stoddard, 1932, p. 44; Gianella, 1945, p. 76; Garside, 1973, p. 56;
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| Carlson, 1974, p. 220; Papke, 1979, p. 21; Wheeler, 1979, p. 139
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