Divide District (Elko County)
Overview
Other Names: Rock Creek
County: Elko
Discovered: 1916
Active: 1916-1929
Commodities: silver, gold, antimony
Comments
This district is located at the head of Dry Creek, about 8 miles northwest of Tuscarora, and covers the drainage divide northeast of McCann Creek Mountain.The district is sometimes included in the adjacent Rock Creek district.
References
U.S. Geological Survey, 1916, p. 474; Stoddard, 1932, p. 30; Granger and others, 1957, p. 133; Lawrence, 1963, p. 54; Smith, 1976, p. 54; Bonham, 1976; Wong, 1982, table 1
Divide District (Esmeralda County)
Overview
Other Names: Gold Mountain, Gold Reef, Dutch Mountain
County: Esmeralda
Discovered: 1901
Commodities: silver, gold, lead, molybdenum
Comments
This district is at Gold Mountain, about 5 miles south of Tonopah. First known as Gold Mountain (Spurr, 1903), its name was changed to Divide following a second wave of discoveries in 1917 (Paher, 1970). Divide district was centered around the divide on the Tonopah-Goldfield road, west of Gold Mountain.
The Gold Reef district was located a few miles to the southeast, on the southeast flank of Gold Mountain; both areas are included in the present Divide district. The Nevada Miner (1902) mentions a Dutch Mountain district, located 6 miles south of Tonopah, that was probably in this area.
References
The Nevada Miner, Sept. 15, 1902, 15:2; Spurr, 1903, p. 87; Lincoln, 1923, p. 64; Stoddard, 1932, p. 37; Lotz, 1934, p. 19; Gianella, 1945, p. 52; Paher, 1970, Albers and Stewart, 1972, p. 65; Bonham and Garside, 1979, p. 121
Dixie Valley District
Overview
Other Names: Dixie, Marvel, Silver Hill
County: Churchill
Discovered: 1907
Active: 1912-13; 1934
Commodities: gold, silver, copper, lead
Comments
Located on the east side of the Stillwater Range, near Dixie and the mouth of Gold Canyon. The townsite of Marvel was associated with first discoveries. The area was included by Vanderburg (1940) in the adjacent Table Mountain district, and is within the large Silver Hill district of DeGroot (1863).
References
DeGroot, 1863; Schrader, 1947, p. 318; Vanderburg, 1940, p. 48; Willden and Speed, 1974, p. 67; Bonham, 1976
Dobbin Summit District
Overview
County: Nye
Commodities: silver, gold
Comments
The district is located near Stargo Spring, northeast of Dobbin Summit in the Monitor Range.
References
Kleinhampl and Ziony, 1984, p. 85
Dogskin Mountain District
Overview
Other Names: Dogskin, Esmeralda, Red Rock Canyon
County: Washoe
Commodities: uranium
Comments
This area may have been included in the Dogskin district, later called Esmeralda and described by Carlson (1974) as being in the area of Freds Mountain, south of Dogskin Mountain.
References
Carlson, 1974, p. 175; Garside, 1973, p. 101, Wong, 1982, table 1
