Mount Tenabo
Mount Tenabo | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 9,157 ft (2,791 m) NAVD 88[1] |
Prominence | 3,153 ft (961 m)[1] |
Coordinates | 40°09′47″N 116°35′05″W / 40.1629756°N 116.584805°W[2] |
Geography | |
Location | Eureka County, Nevada, U.S. |
Parent range | Cortez Mountains |
Topo map | USGS Cortez |
Mount Tenabo (Shoshoni: "Lookout Mountain")[3] is the principal peak in the Cortez Mountains. The mountain is of cultural and religious significance to the Western Shoshone people.
Etymology
There are various theories as to the name's etymology. The mountain may have been named by New Mexicans after an ancient pueblo, or Tenabo may be a Paiute word, meaning of "dark colored water".[4]
Geography
The summit elevation of Mount Tenabo is 9,157 feet (2,791 m), which is 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above the surrounding valleys. Its base is covered with
At an area approximately 3,000 feet (910 m) above the mountain's base, a vein of silver-bearing quartz cuts through obliquely, penetrating into the valley after for 18,650 feet (5,680 m). Its width is 400 feet (120 m). This vein (stratum) contains ore beds, and is encased in crystalline limestone.[5]
History
Silver ore was discovered at Mount Tenabo in 1862.[7] By the later half of the 1860s, there were at least 20 working mills.[5] In 2008, the Te-Moak tribe, the Timbisha tribe and others sought an emergency injunction that would have halted further development of Barrick Gold's Cortez Hills mining operation which includes facilities on the slopes of Mount Tenabo. As of July 2016, mining continues while the BLM prepares a court-ordered supplemental environmental impact statement.[8]
References
- ^ a b "Mount Tenabo, Nevada". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
- ^ "MountTenabo". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
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- ISBN 978-0-87417-094-8. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ a b c Browne, John Ross (1869). Resources of the Pacific slope: A statistical and descriptive summary of the mines and minerals, climate, topography, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and miscellaneous productions, of the states and territories west of the Rocky mountains (Public domain ed.). H. H. Bancroft and Co. pp. 409–. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Nevada (Terr.). Legislative Assembly (1899). Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly (Public domain ed.). pp. 37–. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ISBN 978-0-87417-228-7. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
- ^ Harding, Adella (July 19, 2010). "BLM issues notice on Cortez Hills study". Elko Daily Free Press. Retrieved 2014-01-28.