A variation of the Washoe process was developed in the Reese River mining district around Austin, Nevada.  The Washoe process was found not to work well for ores with arsenic or antimony sulfides, or with galena or sphalerite.  In 1869, Carl A. Stetefeldt of Reno found that roasting the ore with salt converted the silver sulfides to silver chlorides, which could then be recovered in amalgamation pans.  The process was introduced in the Reese River District in 1879, with great success.
Other silver-mining districts using the Reese River process included Georgetown, Colorado, Caribou, Colorado, and Silver Cliff, Colorado.