Sulphur Mining District

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The Sulphur Mining District contains the ghost town of Sulphur.[1]

Devils Corral

Vanderburg (1938) writes: "The silver deposits occur at the south end of the sulphur deposits a short distance from a place called the Devil's Corral, a natural amphitheater formed by highly colored rocks"[2]

Mines

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. W. O. Vanderburg, "Reconnaissance of mining districts in Humboldt county, Nevada," U. S. Bureau of Mines 6995, p. 20, 1938.
  • Clark, I. C., Recently Recognized Alunite Deposits and Sulphur, Humboldt County, Nev.: Eng. & Min. Jour., vol. 106, pp. 159-163. (From Vanderburg)