Mount Tenabo
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Mount Tenabo (Shoshoni: "Lookout Mountain")[1] is the principal peak in the Cortez Mountains. The mountain is of cultural and religious significance to the Western Shoshone people.
Etymology
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".[2]
Geography
The summit elevation of Mount Tenabo is Script error: No such module "convert"., which is Script error: No such module "convert". above the surrounding valleys. Its base is covered with scrub pine. The summit and Script error: No such module "convert". below is overgrown with grass and shrubs. Approximately Script error: No such module "convert". 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.[3] Mount Tenabo, east of and near the north end of the Toiyabe Range, is about Script error: No such module "convert". south of Beowawe.[4]
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History
Silver ore was discovered at Mount Tenabo in 1862.[5] By the later half of the 1860s, there were at least 20 working mills.[3] 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.[6]
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