Belmont Mill Remains
Belmont Mill Ghost Town
White Pine County, Nevada
August 2020
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The Belmont Mill was built in 1925 by the Tonopah Belmont Development Mining Company to process ore from the Belmont Mine, on the side of a mountain 1.8 miles away. Aerial ore buckets traveling on cables suspended between the two sites delivered ore to the mill

Water for the mill was piped approximately two miles from the old California Mill springs located northwest of Hamilton. The mill ran by one central power source. Flat belts ran all the equipment from the shafts throughout the mill. The bearings on the shafts are all poured bearings.

Ore was delivered to the mine by an overhead cable tram from the mine, located three and one-half miles away. The tramline is still visible, but the trip cars are gone. According to a 1926 report, there were a large percentage of slimes in the ore. Extraction was less than 50 percent. Poor recovery and the drop in lead price combined to close the mill.

Belmont Mill information from Donna Frederick - White Pine County.