The Castle Mountains are located in the Eastern Mojave Desert , in northeastern San Bernardino County , California , and Clark County , Nevada . The range lies south and east of the New York Mountains , southwest of Searchlight and west of Cal-Nev-Ari , Nevada.
4-539: Castle Mountains may refer to: Castle Mountains (California) in California and Nevada, USA Castle Mountains (Montana) in Montana, USA Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Castle Mountains . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
8-541: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castle_Mountains&oldid=932749535 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Castle Mountains (California) The range lies at the northeastern end of the Lanfair Valley , and reaches an elevation of 5,543 feet above sea level at
12-608: The summit of Hart Peak. The mountains lie in a southwest-northeasterly direction in both states, although most of the range is in California. The Piute Range lies to the southeast. Canadian NewCastle Gold Ltd. currently holds the rights to the Castle Mountain Mine Area, an open pit gold mine in the southern Castle Mountains. The company has the right to excavate nearly 10 million tons of ore through 2025. Due to low gold prices, however, mining has been suspended since 2001. Castle Mountains National Monument
16-612: Was established by President Obama on 12 February 2016. It designates a portion of the Castle Mountains and the surrounding area a national monument , managed by the National Park Service . It protects 20,920 acres between the interstates I−15 and I−40 . The old mining camp of Hart close to the California−Nevada border is in it. Castle Mountains National Monument is surrounded on three sides by
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