Scope and Content

Jay Arnold Carpenter was a Nevada professor of mining engineering, chair of the Department of Mackay School of Mines, 1926-1951, director of the Nevada State Bureau of Mines, 1939-51, consultant, Metal Research Company, 1942-1944, and a member of the Nevada State Planning Board, 1940-1951. The collection consists of research material on Nevada mines (metals of all types) and mining companies, including the Comstock Lode, engineering field notebooks, correspondence, maps, class notes and papers, clippings, and photographs. The collection is organized into the following six series: I. Mines and mining companies. II. Field notes. III. Correspondence, 1910-1962. IV. Carpenter's writings and miscellaneous memorabilia. V. Newspaper clippings. VI. Photographs.

Box 1   Mines and Mining Companies.

• Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.
• Anaconda Copper
• Arizona Comstock
• Ashdown
• Atlanta Home Gold
• Basic Magnesium
• Berdan Pan
• Bretz
• Brucite
• Bruneau
• Burke Mining District
• Butters Tailings - Six Mile Canyon
• Campanas
• Candelaria Mines
• Carmen
• Century
• Church
• Churchill Milling
• Colossus
• Commodore
• Placer
• Como Mines
• Comstock District (General)
• Comstock Pumps, etc. #1
• Comstock Pumps, etc. #2
• Comstock Gold Mines
• Comstock Tunnel
• Cortez Cons.
• Crosby Tungsten
• Crown Mines
• Curtz Cons.
• Cyprus
• Eagle Pitcher
• El Progresso
• Flowery
• Garnet Tungsten
• Getchell
• Goldfield Cons.
• Goldfield Jackpot
• Goldfield Yellow Cat
• Grantisville [c.1887]
• Green Metals
• Groom Mine
• Hooper
• Imperial Gypsum
• Jim Butler Tonopah
• Kennecott Copper
• Keyes
• Keystone Divide
• McNamara
• Margrave Mayer Dolan
• Monarch (7 Troughs)
• Monarch Pittsburg
• Monitor Belmont
• Montana Tonopah
• Monte Cristo
• Nash Maloney
• Nevadau
• Nevada Copper Belt R.R.
• Nevada Milling
• Nevada Packard

Box 2   Mines and Mining Companies

• Nevada Porphyry
• Nevada Silver Dyke Tungsten
• Nevada Wonder
• New Cornelia
• Newmont Mining
• North Star (Amador)
• Ohio
• Ophir (Trona, Calif.)
• Plumas Eureka
• Primer Gusto
• Randsburg
• Red Bird
• Reno Silver
• Rochester
• Silverado & Kentuck (Mono Mining Co.)
• Standard Metals
• Sulpher Mines (Inyo Co., Calif.)
• Three Queens
• Tonopah Belmont
• Tonopah Extension
• Tonopah Merger
• Tonopah Midway
• Tonopah MWWG
• Treadwell Yukon
• Trio Chrome & Gastonguey Chrome
• Utah Copper
• Utah Spur
• Webster
• West and Chemical
• White Blowout
• White Caps Mining
• Windup
• Mining - Misc.

Box 3   Mines and Mining Companies

• Linka
• Insulex

Box 4   Mines and Mining Companies

• Boulder General
• Boulder Elect
• Bretz (Shawano)
• Tonopah - General
• J.C.'s history of Tonopah mining
• Tonopah District
• Duplicates

Box 5   54 books of field notes.

Box 6   Correspondence, 1910

• Jay Arnold Carpenter's writings and miscellaneous memorabilia; also writings of others. Alumni Association. Maps. Class notes and papers.

Box 8   Newspaper clippings.

Box 9   Photographs in archives as P88-55

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Please direct questions to Jacquelyn Sundstrand
Updated October 15, 2008