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Some good placer areas and scenic country await you just a couple miles off highway 3 west of Lida Jct. (Lida Jct. is about 35 miles south of Tonopah, Nevada.)
PIGEON SPRINGS, NEVADA
USGS Sylvania Mountains Quad
Section 17, T 6S, R 39E
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For those of you who like to visit out of the way places, I will add a few such spots from time to time: areas I covered many years ago that I found interesting just to visit or to do some detecting or panning. Many of these locations still avail themselves to the public, such as Pigeon Springs, just a few miles outside of Tonopah, Nevada. I spent three days searching many of the abandoned town and tent sites in the surrounding area, and many more weekends going through libraries around Las Vegas and at UNLV. Poring through out of date history books, maps, etc., I scribbled notes on my maps of tent or town sites to pinpoint locations. My wife always sent me out loaded with enough food and water to stay lost for a month, I mean, she thought I might get lost, I think... If you know what I mean. Anyway, my jeep was so full that it was difficult finding my desert instruments. Back to the the Pigeon...
Pigeon Springs is in the northwest end of the Sylvania Mountains between Leadville Canyon and the Palmetto Wash about ½ mile south of highway 3 (sec. 17, T 6S, R 39E). Starting from Lida Junction (about 35 miles south of Tonopah on highway 95), travel west on highway 3, through the town of Lida (about 19 miles). Continue another 9 miles beyond Lida to Pigeon Springs. Several dirt trails shoot north and south from highway 3, but the road to Pigeon Springs exits to the south 5 miles west of the Lida Summit, as the highway bends a bit north. Leadville Canyon is about 1.5 miles beyond Pigeon Springs on the same dirt road (take the right fork... go west).
Placers deposits are found on the east slope of the northwest end of the Sylvania Mountains in the Leadville Canyon (sec. 20, T. 6 S., R. 39 E.) and in the major (no name) tributary to Palmetto Wash, near Pigeon Spring. There is gold along with some larger amounts of silver and lead mostly found in the veins.
-JC
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