Douglas County Gold Locations

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: douglas_nv.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. On the extreme east side of Douglas County, is the Buckskin district, which extends across the Pine Nut Mountains and can be reached north form Wellington in Lyon County. There are many area mines. The Buckskin Mine produced lode gold. 2.5 miles northeast of the Buckskin Mine, in the stream gravels is the Ambassador placers in a dry ravine about .5 miles along a tributary of Spring Canyon. This area was extensively hydralicked for placer gold. One mile southeast of the Ambassador, on an alluvial fan sloping toward Artesia, is the Guild-Bovard placers, well worked and still produces gold the size of bird shot. In the extreme southeast corner of the county is the old camp of Silver Glance and in the south end of Pine Nut Mountains, in area of Topaz Lake, the old camp of Mountain House (Holbrook, Pine Nut). Many old mines in this area.