Coal Mine District
Overview
Other Names: Coal Canyon, Coal Mine Canyon, Adobe Range, Peko Hills
County: Elko
Commodities: lead, copper, silver, zinc, oil shale, barite, phosphate
Comments
Includes both sides of Coal Mine Canyon at the northern end of the Adobe Range.
References
Smith, 1976, p. 38, LaPointe and others, 1991, p. 59
Coaldale District
Overview
Other Names: Emigrant Peak area
County: Esmeralda
Discovered: 1894
Commodities: coal, uranium, turquoise, variscite, lead, silver, molybdenum
Comments
Located in the northern Silver Peak Range, south of Coaldale Junction, and extending into the southern Monte Cristo Range, north of Coaldale Junction. Coal deposits are at low elevations on the north end of the Silver Peak Range. Most of the uranium-molybdenum prospects are high in the range near Emigrant Peak, west of the historic coal properties. Small deposits of turquoise, variscite, and coal are reported in the Monte Cristo Range portion of the district.
References
Lincoln, 1923, p. 60; Stoddard, 1932, p. 36; Gianella, 1945, p. 50; Albers and Stewart, 1972, p. 64; Garside, 1973, p. 47-49; Smith and Tingley, 1983
Comet District
Overview
County: Lincoln
Discovered: 1882
Commodities: lead, silver, zinc, gold, copper, tungsten
Comments
The Comet district is located on the southwestern side of Comet Mountain on the west side of the southern Highland Range.
References
References: Hill, 1912, p. 217; Lincoln, 1923, p. 119; Stoddard, 1932, p. 52; Averett, 1962, p. 28; Tschanz and Pampeyan, 1970, p. 154; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 104
Como District
Overview
Other Names: Palmyra, Indian Spring, Indian Springs, Brown’s Indian Spring, Sunrise, Butte
County: Lyon
Discovered: 1860
Organized: 1860
Commodities: gold, silver
Comments
Located at the north end of the Pine Nut Mountains, extending generally from Lyon Peak on the south to the Carson River on the north. The Indian Springs district was organized in 1860. The Palmyra district, which included the towns of Palmyra and Como, was organized in 1862 in the Pine Nut Mountains 8 miles southeast of Dayton between the Sullivan (to the southwest) and Indian Springs (to the northeast) districts.
Both districts were combined in 1869. Perry (1865) showed an Indian Spring district (possibly same as Brown’s Indian Spring district) to extend southeast almost to Walker Lake and include the present Yerington district. The Sunrise area is located in T14N, R22-23E, near Como, between Dayton and Yerington on the county line. DeGroot (1863) showed a Butte district, north of Palmyra, which would be within the present Como district.
References
DeGroot, 1863; Perry, 1865; Stretch, 1867, p. 27; Browne, 1868, p. 328; Angel, 1881, p. 498-499; King, 1885, p. 516; Stuart, 1909, p. 141; Lincoln, 1923, p. 130; Stoddard, 1932, p. 56; Stoddard and Carpenter, 1950, p. 76; Lotz, 1934, p. 18; Moore, 1969, p. 25
Como Placer District Description
Placer deposits in the vicinity of the Como-Eureka mine (T. 15 N., R. 22 E.) in the northern Pine Nut Range were worked in 1883, but lack of water apparently inhibited development. No production directly at- tributed to this area has been recorded in the 20th century, but for many years production from this district was included with production from the Silver City district.
Literature
Burchard, 1884, p. 537.
