![]() ![]() Gold districts with significant records of placer gold production (although not with specific values for production like the previous category) will also be examined. This article will focus on significant Nevada gold districts that have production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces. Of those placer districts, just 15 are considered significant gold producers. Darker shades of yellow signify districts with greater recorded gold production and/or reservesĮighty-two districts are identified as having placer gold, even if very minor and with no recorded production. Some of the placer claims were being explored in 1977.Yellow shaded areas are approximate boundaries of Nevada gold districts. was formed to mine the gold placer property, with August Petroleum as the main stockholder. sampled the placer area and planned a 50,000 yard- 3-day operation. In 1974, a Canadian consortium consisting of August Petroleum Ltd., Spirit Exploration, Ltd., and Thaiaaron Dev. ![]() The dredge ceased operationin 1946 and was shipped over to Copper Canyn in the Battle Mountain District to begin another period of production there. Water to run this operation was piped in from Peavine Canyon 12 miles away. Dredging traversed many previous older placer claims that are described by other MRDS records. The dredge started at the northwest corner of seciton 21 and worked about 5 miles upstream to about the mouth of Black Mammoth Gulch. The most productive period for the placer operations was when Manhattan Gold Dredging Co., a subsidiary of Natomas Co., operated a floating bucket line dredge with 108 buckets in Manhattan Gulch from 1938 to 1946. Most of the early production was developed by hand in drifts and shallow shafts and hand-processed using sluices and drywashers yielding a significant production over several decades. Since their discovery in 1906, the Manhattan Gulch placers have been worked continuously by one method or another until the 1970s if not later. ![]()
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