Cedar Spring District
Overview
Other Names: Cedar Pass
County: Nye
Discovered: 1904-05 (?)
Active: 1904-05 to 1910; 1934
Commodities: silver, gold
Comments
Located in the Kawich Range east of Cedar Pass.
References
Hall, 1981, p. 30; Tingley and others, 1997, p. 7-109
Chalk Mountain District
Overview
Other Names:
County: Churchill
Commodities: lead, silver, gold, molybdenum, vanadium
Comments
The district encompasses Chalk Mountain, lying north of U.S. Highway 50 on the east side of Dixie Valley.
References
Stoddard, 1932, p. 19; Gianella, 1945, p. 12; Vanderburg, 1940, p. 17; Schrader, 1947, p. 115; Willden and Speed, 1974, p. 64
Charleston District
Overview
Other Names: Timber Mountain, Wheeler, Amber Mountain
County: Clark
Discovered: 1869
Commodities: lead, zinc, silver, gypsum
Comments
This district is located on the eastern flank of the Spring Mountains east of Charleston Peak and about 35 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Charleston was originally included in the 30-mile-square Timber Mountain district which joined the Yellow Pine district on the north. The Wheeler district was organized in the same area sometime around 1875. Both names were in use in 1881, but by the 1930s the name Charleston came into use for the general area.
Averett (1962) stated the Wheeler area was later incorporated into the Goodsprings (Yellowpine) district, to the south. Hewett (1931) mentioned an Amber Mountain district, some 30 miles northwest of Las Vegas, which would have been in the vicinity of Lucky Strike Canyon. The Lucky Strike area was also probably the site of the North mines, discovered by Mormons in April 1856. The North mines may have been the site of the first Mormon mining activity, predating by a few weeks the discovery of the Potosi Mine (A. McLane, oral commun. 1992)
References
White, 1871, p. 103; Wheeler, 1872, p. 52; Whitehill, 1873, p. 96; Whitehill, 1877, p. 89; Angel, 1881, p. 486; Hewett, 1931, p. 70; Stoddard, 1932, p. 23; Gianella, 1945, p. 23; Averett, 1962, p. 98; Longwell and others, 1965, p. 144; Papke, 1987, p. 10
