I.X.L. District
Overview
Other Names: Silver Hill, Silver Hills Range, Silver Range, Cox Canyon, Job Peak, Stillwater, Pike Hollow
County: Churchill
Discovered: 1860
Organized: 1879
Commodities: gold, silver, lead, copper, fluorspar
Comments
Located in the Stillwater (Silver Hill) Range. The district includes the Cox Canyon area on west slope of range, the Pike Hollow area on summit of range, and the I.X.L. Canyon area on east slope of range. The 1866 map shows the district covering the entire southern end of the Stillwater Range. The district is probably the Silver Range district mentioned by the U.S. Geological Survey (1920).
Cox Canyon is sometimes considered to be a separate district, and the Job Peak area, to the south on the east side of the range, is sometimes included in I.X.L., but is considered to be a separate district. All of the area is within the large Silver Hill district of DeGroot (1863).
References
DeGroot, 1863; General Land Office, 1866; Stretch, 1867, p. 29; Angel, 1881, p. 364; U.S. Geological Survey, 1907, p. 345; Hill, 1912, p. 200; U.S. Geological Survey, 1920, p. 319; Lincoln, 1923, p. 6; Stoddard, 1932, p. 21; Vanderburg, 1940, p. 32; Schrader, 1947, p. 301, 304; U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1952, p. 596; Carlson, 1974, p. 216; Willden and Speed, 1974, p. 76; Bonham, 1976
Illipah District
Overview
County: White Pine
Discovered: 1986 (?)
Active: 1987-1989
Commodities: gold
Comments
he lllipah district is located in T19N, R58E and includes Antelope Mountain, north of Little Antelope Summit. The district contains one significant gold deposit.
References
Jones, 1988, p. 18; Bonham, 1988, p. 24; Bonham, 1991
Imlay District
Overview
Other Names: Humboldt, Humboldt House, Prince Royal, Eldorado, El Dorado, Lone Mountain
County: Pershing
Discovered: 1860
Organized: 1860
Commodities: gold, silver, mercury, tungsten, antimony, fluorspar, kaolin, sulfur, beryllium
Comments
Located on the north end of the Humboldt Range, the district includes Prince Royal Canyon (Prince Royal district) on the north, Humboldt Canyon (Humboldt district) in central area, and Eldorado Canyon (Eldorado district) on the south. The 1866 map shows the district to cover the eastern tip of the northern Humboldt Range and to extend across the valley to the East Range (topography was in error). The Lone Mountain district mentioned in the Territorial Enterprise (1863) may have been in this area.
References
Territorial Enterprise, June 13, 1863; General Land Office, 1866; Stretch, 1867, p. 47-49; Whitehill, 1873, p. 52, 55; Angel, 1881, p. 450-451; U.S. Geological Survey, 1907, p. 360; Hill, 1912, p. 213; Lincoln, 1923, p. 206; Stoddard, 1932, p. 76; Vanderburg, 1936b, p. 16; Lawrence, 1963, p. 168; Griffiths, 1964, p. 72-73; Johnson, 1977, p. 59; Stager and Tingley, 1988, p. 163
Imlay Placer District Description
Location
West flank of the north end of the Humboldt Range between Prince Royal and Eldorado Canyons, Tps. 31 and 32 N., Rs. 33 and 34 E.
Topographic Maps
Imlay 15-minute quadrangle.
Geologic Maps
Silberling and Wallace, 1967, Geologic map of the Imlay quadrangle, Pershing County, Nevada, scale 1 : 62,500.
Access
From Lovelock, 37 miles north on Interstate 80 to Imlay. Numerous dirt roads lead from the highway east to the mining areas.
Extent
Placers occur in Imlay Canyon, Antelope Canyon, and probably in other canyons at the north end of the Humboldt Range. The placers in Imlay Canyon are near the Imlay mine (sees. 30 and 31, T. 32 N., R. 34 E.).
Production History
Substantial amounts of placer gold have been credited to the Imlay or Humboldt district between 1913 and 1951. For a few years between 1938 and 1949, however, placer gold actually recovered from gravels in Willow Creek (see 98, p. 83-84) was credited to the Imlay district. Placer-mining activity in the Imlay district was apparently restricted to small-scale drywashing of the gravels.
The Willow Creek placers are richer than the Imlay Canyon placers, and it is probable that a considerable part of the placer production credited to the Imlay district actually originated in the Willow Creek district. I have changed the district data for those years where exact production can be credited to the proper district, but I estimate that at least 500 ounces credited to the Imlay district was produced from Willow Creek placers.
Source
The probable source of the placer gold in the Imlay district is gold-bearing veins that occur in Triassic sedimentary rocks in the region. The Imlay vein, the probable source of placer gold in Imlay Canyon, is composed of hard white quartz containing silver and gold.
Literature
U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1930-31 : Locates placers in Imlay and Antelope Canyons. 1938-49: Describes placer-mining activity in Willow Creek under Imlay district.
Independence Mountains District
Overview
Other Names: Jerritt Canyon, Jerritt, Burns Basin, Big Springs, Gance Creek
County: Elko
Commodities: gold, silver, antimony, mercury, barite, titanium
Comments
The Independence Mountains district was defined by LaPointe and others (1991) to include all of the Independence Mountains north of Taylor Canyon and south of the Aura district, including the old Burns Basin antimony district and the gold-mining areas of Jerritt Canyon (Jerritt), Big Springs, and Gance Creek. The Wood Gulch Mine area at the north end of the Independence Mountains is included in the separate Aura district.
References
Lawrence, 1961, p. 45; Beal, 1963, p. 15; Smith, 1976, p. 30; Bentz and Tingley, 1983; Hawkins, 1984, p. 53; Birak and Hawkins, 1985, p. 95; LaPointe and others, 1991, P. 113
