Crescent District

Location: Nevada, United States (35.486, -115.151 approx.)

Commodities: silver; gold; lead; copper; turquoise; molybdenum; vanadium; beryllium; thorium; uranium; perlite; rare earth elements

Geology

“The old district in which the Thor Project is located was variously explored and mined for precious metals and turquoise in the early 1900s, but was not an important producer. Some exploration was done in modern times for porphyry copper and detachment-related gold by major companies, but no serious discoveries were made. During the 1950s uranium prospecting rush a significant number of REE-thorium occurrences were discovered in the district and in adjacent areas. Some of these were variously explored but apparently none were mined. The district has received little attention since.” (Hogge and others (2010))

Exploration and site history

• Discovery — Turquoise occurrences were "re-discovered" in 1889 or 1890 (1); Production from the district began in 1894 (1), 1889–1890 (Tingley (1998))

Record imported from USGS USMIN ver. 4.0 (June 2019). Developments after that date appear on facility records, not here; see the methodology.