Awake: 6:22am Temp 57 sleep 6+19 sunny overnight @ Boulder City, NV.
About a month ago, Jim, our campground host in Pahrump, told us about a silver & gold mine tour available in the small town of Nelson, NV. Yesterday, Hoover Dam; today a mine tour.
Now that we’re in Boulder City, it’s only about a (20) mile drive over to Nelson from our campground; 1st a short distance north on US-93, then south on US-95 & then State road-165 to Nelson, population (45). We had no phone number to call for the mine tour times but we left mid morning anyway & arrived in Nelson @ 10:30am.
Small town it is, but such a different & beautiful….mountainous hide-away area they have. (2.5) miles beyond Nelson lays the Eldorado Canyon Mine. As I mentioned, we didn’t know the tour schedule so when we arrived, a school bus full of young children were scheduled for the 1st tour starting @ 11:00am & they divided that group into (2) tours.
K & I were scheduled with the 1:00pm adult group tour.
In the meantime, there were plenty of interesting thing to see & explore. Old buildings with artifacts going back to circa 1800; tools, mining equipment, utensils, etc; we also drove (5) miles further east, parked our Suzuki, walked ¼ of a mile thru the canyon & dipped our hands in the mighty Colorado river.
Our mine tour consisted of (8) people, including our guide Bobbie; she & her husband Tony bought (54) acres in this area (14) yrs ago. They knew about some of the mine tunnels but just last yr, discovered a lower entrance tunnel with many wings diverting to other open areas that expose a lot more of the history of this (80 to 100) yr old active mine. Using a flashlight, we could easily see the gold/silver veins where the miners tracked the heavy veins of silver & gold ore which they extracted. It was phenomenal!
En route to our motorhome, we auto tour the downtown area of Boulder City….nice town. Then we make a quick stop @ Albertson’s & back to our campsite.
Dinner: leftover Italian sausage from PA, asparagus & a mixed salad.
DVR movie: “No Sad Songs for Me” with Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood, etc. Moving account of dying mother Sullavan preparing her family to go on without her; ironically, Sullavan’s last film. 1950. I found this story to be very touching & emotional; it would be interesting to learn if others feel the same.
Lights out: 11:07pm
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