his son, clarence mackey, took over the business and build a relationship with the university starting in 1907 that led to the creation of the mackey school. one of the unique aspects of nevada, according to the 1864 constitution, the land-grant university in nevada has to teach mining. unr is the land-grant university here in nevada. unr was founded in 1874 in elko, and the elko experiment was considered a bit of a failure. nobody graduated in 10 years. so they moved the university to reno in 1885, and the first building was completed in 1886. the first class graduated in 1891. and mining education at unr in that time was a lot of starts and stops, was not very consistent. there would be a few semesters during which no mining classes were offered. and in those days, unr, in those days it was called the university of nevada, was just a few buildings on the south end of what was then the evans alfalfa ranch. as the university moved north, they bought more of the alfalfa ranch. in 1907 several politicians in nevada thought it would be a good idea to honor john mackey by having a statue o

clarence mackey wanted to "beautify" the campus. donated elm trees and in 1908 donated $100,000 to build the mackey school of mines. 1908,seum was founded in one of the official fixtures of the mackey mine buildings. still displaying and storing items as it would have in 1908. founded as a research museum, it endeavored to bring the world to the mackey student. we have collections from all over the world. many of the collections are from famous mining districts, some have been closed for over 100 years. these samples were taken at depth. in many cases we know the actual shaft and depth the ore sample was taken from. the minerals on display and the objects on display show less than 5% of the collection. the majority is still in storage. our three collecting areas are rocks and minerals, with special focus on ores, paleontology and mining history. in the last 15 years we have tightened our scope to focus on nevada. not only is that what we are are extremelyhey interested from a geological perspective with over 35 minerals discovered he

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