The Nightingale district is one of the lesser-known districts in Nevada, yet it has produced a significant number of good-to-excellent and radite-grossular garnet specimens and probably the best clinozoisite in the state.
The Nightingale mining district is located about 75 miles (by road) northeast of Reno, in the southwest corner of Pershing County and the northeast corner of Washoe County (fig. 2). From Interstate 80, between Reno and Lovelock, the district is about 21 miles ...