Mount Tenabo

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".{{cite book |last=Carlson |first=Helen S. |title=Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&pg=PA230 |accessdate=2012-01-05 |date=1 January 1974 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |isbn=978-0-87417-094-8 |pages=230–}}

The summit elevation of Mount Tenabo is {{convert|9,157|ft}}, which is {{convert|5000|ft}} above the surrounding valleys. Its base is covered with scrub pine. The summit and {{convert|1500|ft}} below is overgrown with grass and shrubs. Approximately {{convert|25|miles}} to the north is the Humboldt River and its valley. Eastward, there are hills and valleys. To the west is the Smoky Valley, Mount Hope, Bunker Hill, and other peaks of the Toiyabe Range.{{cite book|last=Browne|first=John Ross|title=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|url=https://archive.org/details/resourcespacifi00browgoog|accessdate=2012-01-05 |edition=Public domain |year=1869 |publisher=H. H. Bancroft and Co. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/resourcespacifi00browgoog/page/n418 409]–}} Mount Tenabo, east of and near the north end of the Toiyabe Range, is about {{convert|30|miles}} south of Beowawe.{{cite book|author=Nevada (Terr.). Legislative Assembly |title=Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62UjAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA37 |accessdate=2012-01-05 |edition=Public domain |year=1899 |pages=37–}}

At an area approximately {{convert|3000|ft}} above the mountain's base, a vein of silver-bearing quartz cuts through obliquely, penetrating into the valley after for {{convert|18650|ft}}. Its width is {{convert|400|ft}}. This vein (stratum) contains ore beds, and is encased in crystalline limestone.

Silver ore was discovered at Mount Tenabo in 1862.{{cite book |last=Hall |first=Shawn |title=Romancing Nevada's past: ghost towns and historic sites of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine counties |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6n9-98XTxGgC&pg=PA80|accessdate=2012-01-05 |date=December 1993 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |isbn=978-0-87417-228-7 |pages=80–}} By the later half of the 1860s, there were at least 20 working mills. 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.{{cite news |url=http://elkodaily.com/mining/article_6c55063c-9396-11df-a15d-001cc4c002e0.html |last=Harding |first=Adella |date=July 19, 2010 |title=BLM issues notice on Cortez Hills study |publisher=Elko Daily Free Press |accessdate=2014-01-28}}

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Category:Landforms of Eureka County, Nevada

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