Contact District
Overview
Other Names: Salmon, Salmon River, Kit Carson, Porter, Alabama, Portis
County: Elko
Discovered: 1870
Organized: 1871
Commodities: copper, silver, lead, gold, zinc, tungsten, molybdenum, uranium, thorium and rare earths
Comments
The Contact district is centered around the town of Contact and includes all or portions of T43-46N, R62-66E. The original Alabama district was located in the Knoll Mountain area; the Salmon River or Contact district was in the vicinity of town of Contact and Ellen D. Mountain; the Porter district included the area near China and Blanchard Mountains; and the Kit Carson district was near Middle Stack Mountain. By 1910, all of these were included in the large Contact district.
References
Whitehill, 1875, p. 32-33; Whitehill, 1877, p. 24; Angel, 1881, p. 392, 394-395; Stuart, 1909, p. 114; Hill, 1912, p. 204; Lincoln, 1923, p. 40; Stoddard, 1932, p. 29; Gianella, 1945, p. 38; Granger and others, 1957, p. 33; Garside, 1973, p. 43-44; Smith, 1976, p. 39; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 54; LaPointe and others, 1991, p. 61
Cooper District
Overview
Other Names: Rattlesnake Knoll
County: White Pine
Discovered: 1869
Organized: 1869
Commodities: lead, silver, fluorspar
Comments
This district is on the eastern slope of the Schell Creek Range north of Conners Pass in the vicinity of Majors Place. White (1871) placed this district on the eastern slope of the Schell Creek Mountains about 40 miles north of Patterson district, on the south side of Simpson’s Pass (Cooper Canyon?). Fluorspar occurs at Rattlesnake Knoll in Spring Valley, east of the main district.
References
White, 1871, p. 94; Angel, 1881, p. 653; Hose and others, 1976, p. 50; Wong, 1982, table 1
Copper Kettle District
Overview
Other Names: C.K. Copper Kettle, Silver Hill
County: Churchill
Discovered: 1908
Commodities: copper, iron
Comments
District includes the area of Grimes and Copper Kettle canyons and extends to the canyons west of Anderson Ranch along the west flank of the northwestern Stillwater Range. The area is within the large Silver Hill district of DeGroot (1863). The iron occurrence is northwest of Copper Kettle Canyon, and is sometimes considered to be included in the Mineral Basin district which lies to the north in Pershing County.
References
DeGroot, 1863; Lincoln, 1923, p. 2; Stoddard, 1932, p. 19; Gianella, 1945, p. 12; Schrader, 1947, p. 312; Willden and Speed, 1974, p. 64
Copper Valley District
Overview
Other Names: Ragged Top, Jessup
Discovered: 1908 (?)
Commodities: tungsten, copper, iron
Comments
District is located on the Pershing-Churchill county line along the eastern edge of Granite Springs Valley, in the western foothills of the southern Trinity Range. The northern part of district is sometimes included in the adjacent Ragged Top district, Pershing County (to the north). The southern part of the district is commonly included in Jessup district, Churchill County, which lies to the south.
References
Lincoln, 1923, p. 203; Stoddard, 1932, p. 75; Shawe and others, 1962, p. 116; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 31, 159
Cornucopia District
Overview
County: Elko
Discovered: 1872
Organized: 1872
Commodities: silver, gold, copper, lead, antimony
Comments
Located about 15 miles north of Tuscarora, north of the South Fork of the Owyhee River in low mountains bordering the southeast margin of the Owyhee Desert. The main mines are located in sections 18-19, T42N, R51E.
References
Whitehill, 1875, p. 33; Angel, 1881, p. 393; Hill, 1912, p. 204; Lincoln, 1923, p. 41; Stoddard, 1932, p. 29; Gianella, 1945, p. 38; Granger and others, 1957, p. 41; Lawrence, 1963, p. 60; Patterson and others, 1969, p. 607; Smith 1976, p. 45; LaPointe and others, 1991, p. 68
