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Shoshone Mines (Noonday Mine; Grant Mine; Mabel Mine; Black Prince Mine), Resting Springs, Tecopa, Saratoga District (Tecopa Mountain District; Shoshone District ?), Black Mts, Inyo Co., California, USA

Latitude: 35°49'44"N
Longitude: 116°5'46"W

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A former Pb-Ag-Cu-Au-Zn mine complex located in the SE¼SE¼ sec. 15, T20N, R8E, SBM, at Resting Springs, near Tecopa. Additional names which apply to this locality include: Gunsight - 0060270146; Noonday - 0060270147; Orofino - 0060270200; Mabel; Rainbow; Alexander; Columbia No. 2 - 0060270133; War Eagle - 0060270199; Apex Consolidated Gp. - 0060270201.

Mineralization is hosted in limestone.

Production data are found in: Tucker & Sampson (1938): 448.

References

Waring, Clarence A. & E. Huguenin (1919), Inyo County: California Mining Bureau. Report 15: 104.

Tucker, W. Burling & Reid J. Sampson (1938), Mineral resources of Inyo County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 34(4): 448-450.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 333, 340.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 229, 230 (map 6-4).

Mineral List

Cerussite

Galena

Scorodite

Smithsonite

4 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.

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