Editing Groom Lake (salt flat) (section)

==History==
{{Main|Groom Mine}}
{{See also|Silver mining in Nevada}}
Lead and silver were discovered in the southern part of the Groom Range in 1864,<ref name="nevada-bureau">[http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/r44.pdf Mineral resources of the Pahranagat Range 30' by 60' quadrangle] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415145449/http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/r44.pdf |date=April 15, 2012 }}, Joseph V. Tingley, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, [[University of Nevada, Reno]], 1989, retrieved June 11, 2010</ref> and the [[England|English]] Groome Lead Mines Limited company financed the Conception Mines in the 1870s, giving the district its name (nearby mines included Maria, Willow and White Lake). The mining claims in Groom were acquired by J. B. Osborne and partners and patented in 1876, and Osborne's son acquired the interests in the 1890s.<ref name="unr-guide-groom-mining">{{Cite web|url=http://dewey.library.unr.edu/xtf/view?docId=ead/99-19-ead.xml|title=A Guide to the Records of The Groom Mining District Collection No. 99-19|publisher=University of Nevada, Reno|access-date=September 21, 2016}}</ref> The claims were proved in 1916 when two companies began working their mines; that work continued until 1918, and resuming after [[World War II]] until the early 1950s.<ref name="unr-guide-groom-mining"/>