Chase District
Overview
Other Names: Copper Mountain, Cornwall, Cornwall Basin, Mardis
County: Elko
Discovered: 1876
Commodities: gold, copper, silver, antimony, lead, zinc, tungsten, uranium, barite
Comments
The Charleston district includes the drainage area of the Bruneau River and its tributaries from Dry Creek, 1.5 miles south of Charleston, to Coon Creek, about 11 miles to the north. First organized as Mardis in 1876 to cover placers on 76 Creek in the vicinity of Copper Mountain, the district also included placers in Pennsylvania Gulch, Union Gulch, Dry Ravine, and Badger Creek. The town of Charleston was founded 4 miles south of the placers.
References
Hill, 1912, p. 204; Lincoln, 1923, p. 39; Stoddard, 1932, p. 29; Lotz, 1934, p. 18; Gianella, 1945, p. 37; Granger and others, 1957, p. 32; Garside, 1973, p. 42; Smith 1976, p. 35; Papke, 1984, p. 43; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 54; LaPointe and others, 1991, p. 56
Cherry Creek District
Overview
Other Names: Egan Canyon, Gold Canyon
County: White Pine
Discovered: 1872
Organized: 1872
Commodities: silver, gold, lead, copper, zinc, tungsten, antimony, coal, fluorspar, beryllium
Comments
The district extends from Cherry Creek Canyon in the south end of the Cherry Creek Range to north of Paris Ranch Canyon. The Gold Canyon (Egan Canyon) district, located in Egan Canyon about 5 miles to the south, was formerly included in the Cherry Creek district. Butte Valley, to the west, is also sometimes included in the Cherry Creek district.
References
Whitehill, 1875 p. 88, 1877, p. 164; Angel, 1881, p. 657; Lincoln 1923, p. 242; Stoddard, 1932, p. 86; Lawrence, 1963, p. 227; Griffiths, 1964, p. 72-73; Hose and others, 1976, p. 47; Schilling, 1976; Papke, 1979, p. 66; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 207
Cherry Creek Placer District Description
Location
Northern Egan Range, T. 23 N., R. 62 E.
Topographic Maps
Ely 2-degree sheet. Army Map Service.
Geologic Maps
Hose and Blake, 1970, Geologic map of White Pine County, Nevada, scale 1:250,000.
Access
From Ely, 44 miles north on U.S. Highway 93 to junction with State Highway 35; Cherry Creek is at the terminus of State Highway 35, 8 miles west of U.S. Highway 93. From Cherry Creek, Egan Canyon is reached by dirt roads leading 3 miles south.
Extent
Placer gold occurs in the gravels along Egan Canyon (center T. 23 N., R. 62 E.), but the exact location of the deposits is not known.
Production History
Placer gold was known in the canyon before 1916. A small production was recorded for 1932..
Source
The sources of the placer gold are veins in the vicinity of Egan Canyon. These veins are of two types—free gold in quartz veins and silver-gold base-metal veins.
Literature
Hill, 1916: Notes presence of placer gold in Egan Canyon; does not describe occurrence.
