Currant Mountain is the highest

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in the White Pine Range in

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, United States. It is the twenty-first-highest mountain in the state, and also ranks as the sixteenth-most

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peak in the state. Its summit consists of a series of three spires on a thin limestone ridge, with the southern spire being the highest at . To the west are the Duckwater (

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) tribal lands and the northern arm of large Railroad Valley. To the east is the northern part of

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. The peak is located about southwest of the community of

Ely Ely or ELY may refer to: Places Ireland * Éile, a medieval kingdom commonly anglicised Ely * Ely Place, Dublin, a street United Kingdom * Ely, Cambridgeshire, a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England ** Ely Cathedral ** Ely Rural District, a ...

near the

Nye County Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At , Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behi ...

border, within the

Currant Mountain Wilderness The Currant Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area centered on Currant Mountain in the White Pine Range of Nye County and White Pine County, in the eastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. The Currant Mountain W ...

of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

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* * * Mountains of White Pine County, Nevada Mountains of Nevada Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest {{WhitePineCountyNV-geo-stub