Danville District
Overview
Other Names: Chloride
County: Nye
Discovered: 1866
Organized: 1866
Commodities: silver, gold, antimony
Comments
The Danville district is centered around Danville and Green Monster Canyons in the central Monitor Range. The district extends north to include Clear Creek Canyon, and south-southwest about 15 miles to include the area west of the Daughtery Ranch.
References
Angel, 1881, p. 516; Lincoln, 1923, p. 166; Stoddard, 1932, p. 66; Kral, 1951, p. 50;Lawrence, 1963, p. 151; Hall, 1981, p. 33; Kleinhampl and Ziony, 1984, p. 81
Decoy District
Overview
County: Elko
Active: 1917-18, 1952
Commodities: manganese, gold, silver
Comments
The original Decoy district covered only a small area on the lower west slopes of the central part of the Toano Range. The district is now expanded to cover both slopes of the range,extending generally from Morgan Basin on the south to Thirtymile Canyon on the north.
References
Stoddard, 1932, p. 29; Gianella, 1945, p. 39; Granger and others, 1957, p. 42; Smith, 1976, p. 48; LaPointe and others, 1991, p. 73
Deephole District
Overview
Other Names: Deep Hole, Granite Range, Squaw Valley, Gerlach, Miller
County: Washoe
Discovered: 1908
Commodities: gold, silver, copper, lead, tungsten, titanium
Comments
Deephole is located in the southern Granite Range, 18 miles northwest of Gerlach. The Gerlach district of Beal (1963) covered this same general area, and the Miller district of Carlson (1974) also may have been in this area.
References
Hill, 1912, p. 225; Stoddard, 1932, p. 83; Lincoln, 1923, p. 234; U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1939, p. 450; Overton, 1947, p. 61; U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1953, p. 672; Beal, 1963, p. 23; Bonham, 1969, p. 59; Carlson, 1974, p. 60; Bonham, 1976; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 200
Delamar District
Overview
Other Names: Ferguson, Cedar
County: Lincoln
Discovered: 1871, 1891
Organized: 1892
Commodities: gold, silver, copper, lead, perlite
Comments
Wheeler (1872) included this area in a Cedar district, discovered in 1871 and located “on the western side of Bennett Spring Mountains” (generally west of Meadow Valley Wash and southwest of Clover Valley). The present district, discovered in 1891, was originally named Ferguson and its townsite was Delamar.
Delamar came into use as the district name starting in mid-1930s. The main portion of the Delamar district is located on the western front of the range between Monkey Wrench Wash and Cedar Wash, although the district extends to the east almost to Rainbow Canyon and includes the upper part of Taylor Mine Canyon.
References
Wheeler, 1872, p. 43; Stuart, 1909, p. 133; Hill, 1912, p. 217; Lincoln, 1923, p. 119; Stoddard, 1932, p. 52; Callaghan, 1937, p. 7-8; Averett, 1962, p. 24; Tschanz and Pampeyan, 1970, p. 136-140; Bonham, 1976
