Crescent Valley is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Crescent Valley enjoys an Education Index that is above the Nevada state average.

Although they keep the roads plowed, ice is still a serious danger on the roads in and out of Crescent Valley.

The vista of Crescent Valley includes a few sun-whipped shacks and aluminum trailers.

Now, in places like Crescent Valley, hopes are running fervent that the tide will turn again.

That is not a message that sits well in Crescent Valley, where miners point to the bleak surrounding terrain and say they doubt it could be put to better use.

The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction between Crescent Valley and Pine Valley.

By 1970, only one other new gold mine, the Cortez mine near Crescent Valley, Nevada, had been discovered and developed in northern Nevada.

"I worked at the Crescent Valley when I was a teenager," Choudhury said, grinning in spite of herself.

It won't be the same Summer Islands, or the same Crescent Valley.... Deneva is gone.