South Africa-based AngloGold Ashanti Ltd says it could create as many as 300 to 500 jobs near Beatty, if its study to construct a mining operation in the North Bullfrog district outside the town proves feasible this year. Shown here, P&H electric mining shovel loads a Liebherr T282B trucks at the Barrick Gold Corp. Cortez mine, located about 70 miles southwest of Elko, Nevada Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)