Clan Alpine Mountains

{{Short description|Mountain range in Nevada, U.S.}}

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| country = United States

| state = Nevada

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| district = Churchill County

| topo_map = Mount Augusta

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| range_coordinates = {{coord|39|33|10|N|117|54|44|W|type:mountain_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| highest = Mount AugustaEdwards Creek Valley, Nevada, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983

| elevation_m = 3038

| coordinates = {{coord|39|32|23|N|117|55|11|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline}}

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| map = Nevada

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| map_caption = Location of Clan Alpine Mountains in Nevada{{cite gnis|id=847281|name=Clan Alpine Mountains|accessdate=2009-05-04}}

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The Clan Alpine Mountains are a mountain range located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at {{convert|9967|ft}} above sea level. The mountains lie to the west of the Desatoya Mountains and southeast of the Stillwater Range. The Augusta Mountains lie to the northeast and the New Pass Range to the east. A large part of the range, {{convert|196128|acre|km2}}, lies within the Clan Alpine Mountains Wilderness Study Area. The Clan Alpine Mountains lie to the north and northwest of Highway 50.Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 8th ed., 2012, pp. 36, 37 and 44 {{ISBN|978-0-89933-334-2}}

Clan Alpine Mountains took its name from a nearby mining district.{{cite book | url=http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt1.pdf | title=Origin of Place Names: Nevada | publisher=W.P.A. | author=Federal Writers' Project | year=1941 | pages=10}} At least eight mines are located in the northwestern part of the range north of Healy Peak in the Bernice and Hoyt canyons on the northwest flank of the range. This mine group was worked from 1866 and known as the Bernice, Salina or Alamo district. The mines produced antimony, silver, gold and tungsten.[http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/r47/r47.pdf Tingley, Joseph V., Mining Districts of Nevada, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Report 47, 2nd ed., 1998, pp 31-2] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221051144/http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/r47/r47.pdf |date=February 21, 2015 }}