The Nevada State Museum is located on the site of the original Carson City Mint. It is a pretty substantial museum. There is a ghost town and mining exhibit below the first floor, a fairly large exhibit on the Carson City Mint including many coins, silver items made from Nevada silver, minerals and wildlife.
This museum has a substantial ghost town/mine exhibit underground. Oxygen-breathing rescue apparatusCap and fuse magazine.Square set stope, developed in the early days of the Comstock. These are now used the world over to hold heavy ground while extracting ore.Incline winze, which hoists ore up to the main haulage area.Cribbed shaft with crosshead and bailer, used to bail water and hoist rock.Stamp mill. Ore is ground fine and washed over the mercury coated plate. The mercury gathers the gold to form an amalgam.Copper stope. The ore is mined up from the level below, then lowered from this level on a timber slide.Lead-zinc vein.Abandoned drift, showing the crushing effect of loose ground.Gold quartz vein. When streaks or pockets of high grade gold are encountered the specimen boss removes as much “high grade” as possible before the heading is again drilled and blasted.Cinnabar in kaolin. The miner is loading a round of holes for blasting. This method of timbering is spiling, used to advance the heading through loose ground.Scheelite ore (tungsten). The miner is drilling with a stoper. The fluorescent colors of blue, blue-white and white are crystals of scheelite. The red is calcite (no commercial value).Powder magazine.Coin Press Number 1, which produced its first coins at the Mint in Carson City in 1870. Coins with the CC mint mark are highly prized by collectors.Bullion wagon used in the Carson City mint to move ingots from one room to another.Bullion scales from the 1870s.Coins minted at Carson City mint. fgfImperial mammothBobcatBighorn sheepNorthern raccoonMojave green rattlesnakeSage grouseSage grouse hen and chicksSummer tanager
