Chimney Hot Springs, Nevada

This is an unimproved, barely visited hot spring in Nevada. It looks like someone had dug a pool here once but the mineral content is unknown to me. Arsenic? Mercury? I didn't take a sample. The place is surrounded by fine white salt-like crystals. The outflow has pinkish bacteria mats and interesting delicate floating mineral formations.

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• hot
• springs
• nevada
• remote

[Rhondafanonda]

i used to live in central Nevada. Was this footage shot in Smokey Valley by any chance?

[apryason]

@Rhondafanonda - Actually it is in Railroad Valley, just a little south west of Lockes, off of highway 6. If you have Google Earth with the YouTube layer active, you can see the exact location where I shot this. Railroad valley is also the location of one of Nevada's most productive oil fields, complete with a small refinery.

[nicolatwo]

This is neat. I want to go there. I would bathe in this little pool. You can dig out more of the stuff that is at the bottom of the pool and make it deeper and smoother to bathe in. I love natural earth pools. There are many in California, too.

[apryason]

The only caution is that sometimes a pink or red color indicates mercury. I think the color comes from the thermophilic microbes that inhabit the spring, but have a water sample analyzed. (You have some mercury-laden hot springs in California, most notably the ones around Wilbur Hot Springs. It was mined in that area around the time of the gold rush. Microbes in mud metabolize it to methyl-mercury - worse) A better natural pool would be Trego H.S. in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach.

[nicolatwo]

Hello, You know a lot about the mineral composition of geothermal water. Thank you for telling me about the Mercury in some springs. My husband has Mercury poisoning through dental fillings. We have to be extra careful not to be exposed to more Mercury. I had a good feeling about the hot springs in Northern Nevada.

[apryason]

I don't really know "a lot" about it but thanks for the complement. My qualification is I read quite a bit. We have a lot of hot springs in Idaho, many are alkaline sulfur springs, good for the body and soul. Heavy metal poisoning can sometimes be treated with chelation therapy if it's bad. I had my old mercury amalgam fillings replaced. I don't know if it has improved my health but I no longer pick up AM radio in my head on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge lower deck.

[nicolatwo]

Hello apryason, I love alkaline sulfur water, it's the best. It's healing and chelating. My husband feels so much better when he bathes in hot springs. He also is doing an herbal chelation program currently which is helping him. We both had our amalgam fillings removed, too. Our dentist in LA, Dr. Rotha, removes them safely with extra oxygen, herbal solutions, and extra vaccum devices. Ha, is it true that you received radio frequencies in your fillings? I have heard that before.

[davidsquall351]

looks like a neat place.