Tarantula Mine (Nichols Mine and millsite; Broken Pick Mine and millsite), Wildrose Mining District (Wild Rose Mining District), Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USAi
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
36° North , 117° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~76km
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
258708
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:258708:3
GUID (UUID V4):
1fea3bf4-936a-4938-a761-80f291a6e85a
Only brief mentions of other tungsten mining endeavors in Trail Canyon were found in the monument files. These included...
...the Tarantula Mine (old Nichols Mine and Millsite) in the North and Middle Forks of Trail Canyon, worked in 1958. According to notes in the monument mining office this was probably the only profitable tungsten operation in Death Valley during the 1950s boom era, and was responsible for attracting others to the Trail Canyon area.
The Nichols Mine and Millsite were later relocated as the Broken Pick Mine and Millsite. The Small Hill Millsite was a conflicting relocation of the old Nichols Millsite filed in the same year as the Broken Pick Millsite relocation. Information was also found that a certain Joseph Harris of Yuma, Arizona, who had been involved in various mining activities in Death Valley since the 1930s, in addition to leasing the Skidoo Mine from 1938 to 1939 and operating the Keane Wonder Extension from 1949 to 1955, had run a tungsten mine in Trail Canyon in 1960.Greene, 1981
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- Antler Foreland BasinBasin
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mojave DomainDomain
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- Death Valley National ParkNational Park
- Sierra NevadaMountain Range
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