Cerro Gordo Mine, Cerro Gordo, Cerro Gordo District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo Co., California, USA

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A former Ag-Pb-Cu-Zn mine located in sec. 13, T16S, R38E, MDM, at the site of the former town of Cerro Gordo (ghost town), 9.5 km (5.9 miles; 9 road miles) NE of Keeler. It resulted from the consolidation of the Union and Santa Maria mines.

References

Raymond, Rossiter Worthington (1869), The mines of the West, Report to the Secretary of the Treasury, 256 pp., New York: 29.

Hanks, Henry Garber (1884), Fourth report of the State Mineralogist: California Mining Bureau. Report 4, 410 pp. (includes catalog of minerals of California pp. 63-410), and miscellaneous observations on mineral products): 71, 124.

Rogers, Austin Flint (1901), Mineralogical notes: American Journal of Science, 4th. Series: 12: 42-48.

Eakle, Arthur Starr (1908), Notes on some California minerals: University of California, Department of Geological Science Bulletin: 5: 225-233.

Guild, Frank Nelson (1911), Mineralogische Notizen: Zeitschr. Kristallographie, Band 49: 321-331.

Rogers, Austin Flint (1912b), Notes on rare minerals from California: Columbia University, School of Mines Quarterly: 33: 374.

Knopf, Adolf (1914b), Mineral resources of the Inyo and White Mountains, California: USGS Bulletin 540: 105, 106.

Waring, Clarence A. (1915), Inyo County; 15th Report of the State Mineralogist, California Mining Bureau: 74.

Knopf, Adolf (1918a), A geologic reconnaissance of the Inyo Range and the eastern slope of the southern Sierra Nevada, California; with a section on the stratigraphy of the Inyo Range, by Edwin Kirk; USGS PP 110, 130 pp.; […(abstract): Washington Academy of Science Journal: 9: 414 (1919)]: 114, 115-116.

Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 409.

Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Etc. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124pp.: 250.

USGS Bull 625

Merriam, Charles Warren (1963), Geology of the Cerro Gordo Mining District, Inyo County, California: USGS PP 408, 83 pp.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1964a), Minerals new to California: The Mineralogist (August 1964): 32: 16.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 89, 104, 114, 119, 123, 125, 213, 223, 232, 241, 244, 245, 252, 267, 292, 340, 384, 388.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 48, 184, 225, 228, 229, 234, 298, 299, 339, 437.

Mineral List

Acanthite Anglesite Aurichalcite Azurite Baryte Bournonite Brochantite Calcite Caledonite Cerussite Chalcocite Chlorargyrite

Chrysocolla Copper Covellite Cuprite Galena var: Argentiferous Galena Goethite Greenockite Halloysite Hemimorphite Hydrozincite Jamesonite

Leadhillite Limonite Linarite Liroconite Malachite Minium Mixite Oxyplumboroméite Plumbogummite ? Plumbojarosite Polybasite Pyrite

Pyromorphite Quartz Rosasite Siderite Smithsonite Sphalerite Tenorite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Willemite Wulfenite

47 entries listed. 44 valid minerals.