Red Ridge District
Overview
Other Names:
County: Mineral
Commodities: uranium
Comments
Located west of Calico Hills, east of Rawhide.
References
Garside, 1973, p. 77
Reese River District
Overview
Other Names: Austin, Amador, Yankee Blade, Simpson’s Park
County: Lander
Discovered: 1862
Organized: 1862
Commodities: silver, gold, lead, copper, zinc, uranium, molybdenum, antimony, arsenic
Comments
The oldest mining district in eastern Nevada. The Amador portion, 6 miles north of Austin around New York Canyon, joined and was later incorporated into the Reese River district. The General Land Office 1866 map showed Simpson’s Park district to cover a large area in the central Toiyabe Range, extending from Austin east to the area of Dry Creek. The Yankee Blade area was situated in a series of canyons 3 to 7 miles northwest of Austin.
References
General Land Office, 1866; Stretch, 1867, p. 97-98; White, 1869, p. 44; White, 1871, p. 43; Whitehill, 1873, p. 60; Whitehill, 1875, p. 60; Angel, 1881, p. 475; Hill, 1912, p. 216; Lincoln, 1923, p. 114; Stoddard, 1932, p. 51; Vanderburg, 1939, p. 68; Lawrence, 1963, p. 109; La Heist, 1964, p. 66; Garside, 1973, p. 61-64; Stewart and others, 1977, p. 91
Reese River Placer District Description
The Reese River drains a large part of central Nevada from its head near the southeast summit of Toiyabe Dome in Nye County to where it joins the Humboldt River, east of Battle Mountain, in Lander County. Some placer gold was recovered from somewhere along this large drainage. Vanderburg (1939, table 7) includes the placer gold production with the production from the Reese River lode district at Austin, Lander County (T. 19 N., 44 E.). This district is predominantly a silver district, but minor amounts of gold have been recovered.
Literature
Vanderburg, 1939.
Ross, 1953.
Republic District
Overview
Other Names: Black Spring, Royston Hills, Orizaba, Republic Camp, Cloverdale
County: Nye
Commodities: silver, gold, lead, zinc, tungsten, turquoise
Comments
The Republic district is located in the northern Royston Hills and includes three general mining areas: mines in the Royston Hills near the camp of Republic (Orizaba Mine area) in the southwest quarter of T8N, R39E; the Cole Springs camp about 1 mile to the southwest in the northeast quarter of T7N, R39E; and a third area about 3 miles to the south in the south-central part of T7N, R39E.
Republic was sometimes included in the Black Spring district, and was included by Kral (1951) in his large Cloverdale district which covered the area from the Nye-Mineral county line to the southern Toiyabe Mountains.
References
Kral, 1951, p. 43; Jones, 1984; Kleinhampl and Ziony, 1984, p. 180; Stager and Tingley,1988, p.149
Reveille District
Overview
County: Nye
Discovered: 1866
Organized: 1866
Commodities: silver, gold, zinc, lead, antimony, copper, tungsten
Comments
The Reveille district is in the northern Reveille Range about 15 miles southeast of Warm Springs. The district is centered at the crest and on the west side of the range in T2N, R51aE.
References
Stretch, 1867, p. 63; White, 1869, p. 77; White, 1871, p. 92; Whitehill, 1873, p. 110; Whitehill, 1877, p. 109; Hill, 1912, p. 223; Lincoln, 1923, p. 179; Stoddard, 1932, p. 70; Kral, 1951, p. 141; Lawrence, 1963, p. 135; Kleinhampl and Ziony, 1984, p. 168; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 148
