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3 Mono City CA
Mono Lake is believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago, dating back to the Long Valley eruption. Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, making it among the oldest lakes in North America.
Mono Lake is a terminal lake in a watershed fed from melting runoff with no outlet. Dissolved salts in the runoff thus remain in the lake and raise the pH and the salt concentration.
Mono Lake is in a geologically active area at the north end of the Mono-Inyo Crater volcanic chain of the Long Valley Caldera. The geological activity is caused by faulting at the base of the Sierra Nevada, and is associated with the crustal stretching of the Basin and Range Province.
Volcanic activity continues in the Mono Lake vicinity: the most recent eruption occurred 250 years ago at Negit Island in Mono Lake. Panum Crater (on the south shore of the lake) is an excellent example of a combined rhyolite dome and cinder cone.
4 Ely NV
Ely is a mining town, suffering through the boom and bust cycles so common in the West. Originally Ely was home to a number of copper mining companies, Kennecott being the most famous. With a crash in the copper market in the mid 1970s, Kennecott shut down and copper mining disappeared.
With the advent of cyanide heap leaching -- a method of extracting gold from what was previously considered very low grade ore -- the next boom was on. Many companies processed the massive piles of "overburden" that had been removed from copper mines, or expanded the existing open-pit mines to extract the gold ore. Gold mines as widespread as the Robinson project near Ruth, and AmSelco's Alligator Ridge mine 65 miles from Ely, kept the town alive during the 1980s and 1990s, until the recent revival of copper mining.
As Kennecott's smelter was demolished, copper concentrate from the mine is now shipped by rail to Seattle, where it is transported to Japan for smelting. The dramatic increase in demand for copper in 2005 has once again made Ely a copper boom town.
Former First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon was born in Ely on March 16, 1912.
The now defunct BHP Nevada Railroad ran from the mining district south of Ruth through Ely to the junction with the Union Pacific at Shafter from 1996 until 1999.
5 Kimberly NV
Kimberly is a ghost town. Copper discoveries were first made in the area in 1877 but major development did not take place until the early 1900s. By 1905, the company town of Kimberly had a population of about 100. It also had a post office, saloons, boardinghouses, and numerous residences. A big boost to Kimberly came when the Nevada Northern Railway was completed in 1906. By 1907 Kimberly had grown enough to warrant the formation of the Kimberly School District. Kimberly continued to grow as production in the district increased drastically. By 1910 the town had grown to 200. In 1910, the Consolidated Copper Mines Company gained control of the Kimberly District. By the 1920s, Kimberly was an impressive company town with a population of 500, a new school, a hospital, a Nevada Northern depot, and many other businesses. The depression slowed production and the decline continued until 1958 when the Kennecott Corporation bought the Kimberly townsite. The following year mill and town were dismantled to make room for the Trippi-Veteran open-pit operation. Today, only a large hole and mine dumps show that Kimberly ever existed.
Map Specifics
Map Type: Real World
Region map size:
Ely: 4x5 Large tiles/20 total Author: papab2000
Mono City: 8x8 Large tiles/64 total Author: papab2000
Kimberly: 4x5 Large Tiles/20 total Author: papab2000
config.bmp size: included with zip file
Dependencies: Either SC4 Mapper or SC4 Terraformer for importing.
Maps were created by taking USGS DEM data and converting the data through a series of processes to a 16bit grayscale png.
Install/Uninstall Instructions
Installing the Map
To install SC4M map file:
1. If you don't already have SC4Mapper, download it here and follow the install instructions.
2. Unzip this file.
3. Run SC4Mapper, click on 'create region'
4. Choose SC4M
5. Browse to the unzipped folder and point the map file .SC4M
6. Click on 'Save Region' and name it, and Quit SC4Mapper
7. Run SC4 and load the new region. The colors of the region in SC4 will be the same colors as SC4Mapper until you enter and save each city tile. But you have the choice to do it as you go and not right away.
SC4Terraformer:
1. Create a new region folder in your Plugins\Region
2. Copy my config.bmp into the folder and overwrite the old one. (make changes to config.bmp file now if you want)
3. Open the new region you just created with SC4 Terraformer
4. Click on Import Image in the Global Tools Menu and browse for my SC4M file.
5. When file is imported click File - Save (the region is now saved to SC4
6. The colors of the region in SC4 will be the same colors as SC4TF until you enter and save each city tile. But you have the choice to do it as you go and not right away.
Start opening tiles!
Any comments and feedback welcomed. Thanks for looking and enjoy.
Credits:
papab2000 - Original map creation, scaling, importing. SC4TF modification.
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