Nightingale Mining District

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The Nightingale Mining District east of Winnemucca Lake.[1]

Mineral Resources 1921 states: "The Hanson claims on the east side of the Nightingale Mountains were prospected and ore much better than the average is said to have been taken out. Heavy bodies of iron sulphides are said to have been cut a short distance below the surface"[2].

References

  1. Joseph V. Tingley, "Mining Districts of Nevada," Report 47, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1998, 2nd Edition. See map for details.
  2. "Mineral Resources of the United States," p. 979, 1921.
  • MR1918 I 979. (From Lincoln)
  • "[Mineral Resources of the United States]," p. 979, 1921
  • Hess, F. L., and Larsen, E. S., "Contact-Metamorphic Tungsten Deposits of the U. S.", USGS B 725D (1921) 282-5. (From Lincoln)