Rhyolite is a ghost town that once served the community serving the Bullfrog
Gold Mining District. Construction in the town site began in 1906 near
one of the most promising mines, the Montgomery Shoshone mine. The town
quickly grew to about 500 residents. A downturn in the economy in 1907
lead to the collapse in area mining investiments, and the community vanished
by 1911. Rhyolite is located just off Highway 374 about 3 miles west of
Beatty Nevada and about two miles east of the one-way Titus Canyon Road.
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