Panaca, Pancake, Papoose, Paradise Peak Districts

Publication Info:
Nevada Mining Districts (Compiled Reports)
The Districts Described in This Section are from the following publications:

Mining Districts of Nevada - Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 47 (updated 1998); Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada - USGS Bulletin 1356 (1973)

Table of Contents

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

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