Uploaded June 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Shorty Harris helped turn Rhyolite into a Nye County boomtown with discovery of the Bullfrog Mine in 1904, but the good times lasted only until 1920. Decades later Barrick Gold Corp. established a new Bullfrog Mine five miles away, using modern technology to uncover gold and silver missed by the miners of yesteryear.
Shorty Harris helped turn Rhyolite into a Nye County boomtown with discovery of the Bullfrog Mine in 1904, but the good times lasted only until 1920. Decades later Barrick Gold Corp. established a new Bullfrog Mine five miles away, using modern technology to uncover gold and silver missed by the miners of yesteryear.










