Tuscarora — Elko County

Source: Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache (tomashworth.com / Mike Higbee / 49erMike). Author: Tom Ashworth. Original page: elko_nv.shtml. State index: https://web.archive.org/web/20040830075749/http://www.tomashworth.com/goldloc.shtml Area: Tuscarora. Map coordinates are an approximate county centroid — not a precise claim site. The Tuscarora district is in the west central part of the county on route 18 about 42 miles east of Midas and 50 miles northwest of Elko, near the headwaters of South Fork of the Owyhee River. Area mines, especially the Dexter and Grand Prize mines produced a lot of gold. The regional watercourse, bench and terrace gravels contain rich placer gold. Many large nuggets were found. West of Tuscarora 1.5 miles is the Harris Placers which were rich placers worked by Chinese. Along Review Gulch there were rich placers as well. Northwest of Tuscarora 8 miles at the head of Dry Creek large nuggets were found in the old days.