Luning (formerly Deep Wells) is an unincorporated town in Mineral County, Nevada, in the United States.

Magnesium ore from Gabbs was trucked to Luning and transferred to railroad cars bound for the West in World War II.

The Basic Refractories mine in Gabbs was opened in 1955; it produced magnesium that was also trucked to the Luning loading platform, where most men in town worked.

A station on the Southern Pacific Railroad between Thorne and Mina as a supply center for the Nevada Brucite quarry.

The town originally called Deep Wells started in 1881 and changed its name to Luning when the railroad arrived.

Born in West Virginia in 1867, he traveled with his parents and five siblings to California where the family operated a marble monument company.

This climate type occurs primarily on the periphery of true deserts in low-latitude semiarid steppe regions.