THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF NEVADA 
 
 
Table 2.—Value of mineral production in Nevada, in counties 
519 
County 
1966 
1967 
Minerals produced in 1967 in order of value 
Churchill         
Clark           
$606,714 
11,291,358 
$457, 484 
9,668,035 
Sand and gravel, salt, stone, tungsten. 
Sand and gravel, lime, stone, gypsum, clays, gold, lead, silver. 
Douglas         Elko            
 
Esmeralda       Eureka         
 
Humboldt       Lander          
2,355,006 
1,066,050 
 
1,802,124 
 
10,220,873 
. 
4,198,443 
' 945,029 
2,112,441 
1,695,262 
~ 
1,845,365 
 
12,557,775 
 
4,126,182 
5,837,182 
Iron ore, sand and gravel, stone. 
Sand and gravel, copper, barite, stone, antimony, lead, silver, zinc, gold.

Lithium minerals, diatomite, mercury, talc and soapstone, sand and gravel,
clays, gold, silver. 
Gold, iron ore, sand and gravel, stone, zinc, mercury, lead, barite, silver,
copper. 
Gold, mercury, sand and gravel, silver, copper, zinc. Copper, barite, gold,
silver, sand and gravel, antimony, stone. 
Lincoln          
 
Lyon            
 
Mineral          
 
Nye             
 
 
Ormsby          
Pershing         
 
 
Storey           
Washoe          
 
White Pine       
 
Undistributed 1_~ 
3,224,134 
 
33,011,545 
 
52,350 
 
3,201,340 
 
 
145,890 
5,564,641 
 
 
W 
r 2,396,314 
 
r 30,464,251 ' 2,090,938 
1,773,641 
 
22,180,892 
 
 49,656 
 
2,558,951 
 
 
W 
4,421,416 
 
 
W 
2,180,513 
 
16,845,617 
 
2,572,588 
Zinc, silver, lead, perlite, sand and gravel, copper, gold, pumicite. 
Copper, cement, stone, diatomite, sand and gravel, silver, gold, clays. 
Barite, stone, sand and gravel, mercury, copper, pumice, silver. 
Magnesite, petroleum, fluorspar, sand and gravel, mercury, peat, brucite,
gold, barite, volcanic cinder, clays, lead, zinc, stone, tungsten. 
Volcanic cinder, sand and gravel, stone. Diatomite, iron ore, gypsum, sand
and gravel, mercury, copper, perlite, stone, tungsten, silver, antimony,
lead, gold. 
Diatomite, pumice. 
Sand and gravel, clays, stone, pumicite and volcanic cinder, gold, silver.

Copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, lime, stone, sand and gravel, lead, zinc.

Total       
112,637,000 
90,883,000 
 
 Revised. W Withheld to avoid disclosing individual company confidential
data; included with "Undistributed." 
 1 Includes gem stones, mercury, tungsten, and barite that cannot be assigned
to specific counties and values indicated by symbol W. 
 
Table 3.—Economic indicators 
 
1966 
1967 P 
Change 
(percent) 
Personal income: 
 
 
 
 Total millions_ 
 Per capita                                            
Mineral production millions_ 
Annual average payroll: 
 Total 1 thousands 
 Mining do.. Contract construction do~ 
$1,507 
$3,497 
$112.6 
$68,129 
$2,518 
$7,044 
$1,610 
$3,626 
$90.9 
$70,122 
$2,319 
$6,325 
+6.8 
+3.7 
—19.3 
 
+2.9 
—7.9 
—10.2 
Manufacturing do~. 
Transportation and utilities 2 do. 
Trade (wholesale and retail) do~~ 
Finance, insurance, and real estate do 
Service and miscellaneous do~ 
Total work force do~.. 
Unemployment                                     do.~ 
Annual average employment: 
 Agriculture                                     do~... 
 Mining                                        do~. 
Contract construction do... 
$4,272 
$5,482 
$13,152 
$2,993 
$32,335 
199.2 
11.7 
 
 5.0 
 4.0 
 9.3 
$4,190 
$5,733 
$13,623 
$3,248 
$34,340 
200.9 
11.5 
 
 4.4 
 3.4 
 7.6 
—1.9 
+4.6 
+3.6 
+8.5 
+6.2 
+0.9 
—1.7 
 
—12.0 
—15.0 
—18.3 
Manufacturing do....Transportation and utilities do......Trade (wholesale
and retail) do~....Finance, insurance, and real estate do......Service and
miscellaneous do......Government do...... 
7.0 
11.5 
30.3 
6.2 
63.5 
30.3 
6.7 
11.6 
30.2 
6.4 
66.8 
32.2 
—4.3 
+0.9 
—0.3 
+3.2 
+5.2 
+6.3 
 P Preliminary. 
1 Excludes Federal Government. 
 2 Excludes railroad. 
 2 May vary from Bureau of Mines canvass.