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* Frederick Leslie Ransom, "[http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0414/report.pdf Notes on Some Mining Districtes in Humboldt County, Nevada]," 1919
* Frederick Leslie Ransom, "[http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0414/report.pdf Notes on Some Mining Districtes in Humboldt County, Nevada]," 1919


* Craven Copper Co.
** Walter Harvey Weed, "[http://books.google.com/books?id=QDwIAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA1034&ots=uhnzdAXuid&dq=Craven%20Copper%20Co%20humboldt&pg=PA1034#v=onepage&q=Craven%20Copper%20Co%20humboldt&f=false The Mines Handbook: An Enlargement of the Copper Hand Book]," p. 1034, 1920. "Craven Copper Co.  P. H. Craven pres.  Property near Winnemucca, Humboldt County, slightly developed, said to carry high-grade copper ore.  Idle during the war but operations to be resumed."
** Nevada State Journal, "[http://newspaperarchive.com/nevada-state-journal/1941-11-03/page-3 Develops Ore in Red Butte Mines]," November 11, 1941.  Article about Augustus D. Ramel, age 79, developing Claudia Group.  Ramel is staid to have discovered the Red Butte District in 1907.  He owned the area that was formerly the Craven Copper Co.
* [http://www.mindat.org/loc-36850.html Mindat]
* [http://www.mindat.org/loc-36850.html Mindat]
** [http://www.mindat.org/loc-59641.html Low copper prospect] East Flank of Navajo Mountain
** [http://www.mindat.org/loc-59641.html Low copper prospect] East Flank of Navajo Mountain

Revision as of 05:55, 14 March 2013

The Red Butte Mining District is located on the south of the Jackson Range.

External Resources

Photos at the Humboldt Historical Society

  • Craven Copper Co 1918. Mining District Red Butt Mining District on West Slope of the Jackson Range Fifteen miles north of sulphur
  • Headrame shaft house Craven COpper Co 1912
  • Mining District, Red Butte, #3 (Postcard on back)
  • Craven Copper Co Mine at Copper Queen Mine in Red Butte, NV, 1920
  • Silver Lead Palmers about 1924 Jackson Mt East of Cravens and Red Butte Probably Matt Hovich
  • Rattlesnake Red Butte District Keystone Drilling Outfit 1912 (Postcard) Mining District Red Butte #13
  • Headframe and Engine Houe Copper Queen Min Red Butte Dist.