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Processing the ore required chemicals that had to be acquired
from other sources, ultimately mined. Of course, local sources of
the chemicals were less expensive than ones that required
shipping. The shaded relief map of the Truckee River drainage
shows the locations of some sources of salt in purple and the
locations of some sources of copper in brown.
The salt needed for the Patio Process
was mined in the dry lakes and marshes nearby. See
the article by Joe Tingley published in the NBMG Quarterly
Newsletter, Nevada Geology, Summer, 1990: Salt and Silver.
Of course, this meant that other economic systems had to develop
in order to support this additional mining.
The copper sulfate needed for the Patio Process was mined in
various places in the modern Yerington Mining District in present
day Lyon County. (Moore, J. G., Geology and Mineral Deposits
of Lyon, Douglas, and Ormsby Counties, Nevada, Nevada Bureau
of Mines and Geology Bulletin 75, Mackay School of Mines,
University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 1969, p. 22)
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