Panaca District
Overview
Other Names: Lost
County: Lincoln
Commodities: uranium, titanium
Comments
This area includes scattered uranium occurrences lying generally east and southeast of Panaca. The Lost district, shown on the 1880 map, may have included the eastern part of this general area.
References
1880 map; Beal, 1963, p. 17; Garside, 1973, p. 70; Papke, 1973
Pancake District
Overview
County: White Pine
Organized: 1870
Commodities: gold, silver, coal
Comments
Includes all of Pancake Range extending from Pogues Station to north of U.S. Highway 50 at Pancake Summit.
References
Hose and others, 1976, p. 62
Papoose District
Overview
Other Names: Papoose mining area
County: Lincoln
Discovered: 1909
Organized: 1916-37
Commodities: lead, silver, gold, copper
Comments
The district includes all of the Papoose Range and lies between Groom Lake and Papoose Lake at the south end of Emmigrant Valley. Most of the mines and prospects are on the east side of the range in the vicinity of the Kelly Mine.
References
Tschanz and Pampeyan, 1970, p. 176; Tingley, 1989b, p. 7; Tingley and others, 1997, p. 7-145.
Paradise Peak District
Overview
Other Names: Fairplay, Paradise
County: Nye
Discovered: 1865
Organized: 1865
Commodities: mercury, tungsten, molybdenum, copper, gold, silver
Comments
The Paradise Peak district is located in the southern Paradise Range in the vicinity of Paradise Peak. The district extends from Paradise Spring on the southwestern flank of the peak to B & C Spring on the southeastern flank, and includes Paradise Peak as well as a small part of its north slope. This district has historically been included in the adjacent Fairplay district.
The historic Paradise district of Todd and Welton (1866), Stretch (1867) and Danner (1995), and the Fairplay district of Kral, (1951) and Kleinhampl and Ziony (1984) included the areas of both the present Fairplay district and the present Paradise Peak district.
References
Todd and Welton, 1866; Stretch, 1867, p. 58; Bailey and Phoenix, 1944, p. 140; Kral, 1951, p. 57; Schilling, 1976; Kleinhampl and Ziony, 1984, p. 94; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 139; Danner (1992), p. 32
