Gold
Oriental mine, Tokop Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
Oriental Nevada, Oriental Mine. This mine was in a very remote part of Central Nevada, the mine operated in the late 1860s but it wasn't until the 1870s when the miners encountered rich high grade Gold ore, the ore was so rich and attractive that some of it was put on display in Philadelphia at the Centennial Exposition in 1876.