Gold mines near Lone Pine, Calif, Owens Valley, Inyo Mtns, SCARCE 1st ed, MAPS !

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Rare 1st ed. locates old gold & silver mines
in Inyo Mountains, near Owens Valley, CA
ONLY report on these mines pinpoints
4.3
MILLION
ounces of gold and silver still waiting to be mined!!!
Report includes famous Beveridge Mining District; nearest towns are
Lone Pine and Keeler, near Rte. 395, on the way to Mammoth Mountain
Detail of map shows some of the 54 mines that are described in this report. Landmarks are intentionally blurred in scans to protect mine locations. Landmarks are not blurred on real maps. "Au" is the abbreviation for gold. "Ag" means silver. The area shaded red almost certainly holds undiscovered lodes of gold and silver.
T
his is the ONLY full-length official report on gold and silver mines in the Inyo Mountains, above Owens Valley, near Lone Pine, California.
As far as I know, this is only the third time that this report has been offered on ebay. I have been buying and selling mining items on ebay for almost 15 years and have only seen three other copies. So buy it now before it gets away, or forever hold your peace. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Unlike many other mining reports, which only describe existing deposits, this report also predicts where untapped silver and gold lodes are waiting to be discovered.
No fences and no guards
Much of this area is accessible and completely deserted. You can go anywhere you want at these sites and pretty much do whatever you want, when you
want, as long as it's legal. There are no guards, fences, barking dogs or no trespassing signs. Much of this area is miles away from any town of any size and is on federal Bureau of Land Management or National Forest Service lands and is open to prospecting and mineral collecting.
Don't be fooled
by similar covers
There are a lot of geology reports out there with similar covers. DON'T BE FOOLED: Most reports in this series with a similar cover are complete SNORES — about gravel pits,
oil wells and diatomite for swimming pool filters. Very few of these titles are about gold and silver mining.
ALL my reports with this style cover are out-of-print and difficult to find.
They are about precious minerals and gems. Most other reports with this style cover that you see are NOT out of print.
So buy it now or forever hold your peace. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Also, don't be fooled by the newness of these reports. These 1985 reports are just as rare as some of the older reports.
Covers 54 properties
This 57,400-acre section of beautiful unpopulated wilderness contains more than 1,000 mine claims. This report covers 54 of the most important old mines; 12 supposedly hold the most in undiscovered reserves. In fact, this report predicts 1.1 MILLION ounces of gold and 3.2 MILLION ounces of silver are waiting to be discovered and mined. And this report plainly maps where that gold and silver is probably lurking (see map, below left).
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That this area is rich in gold and silver should really not come as a surprise. The incredibly rich silver mines of Cerro Gordo are only three miles south of the study area. From 1869–1876, Cerro Gordo was California's great silver and lead producer, shipping ore and bullion worth anywhere from million to million, depending on who you believe, a minimum of 4,400,000 ounces of silver and 37,000 tons of lead. Yield per ton averaged 140 ounces of silver. In 1868, miners
threw away
any ore worth less than 0 a ton.
Yes, the study area includes almost all of the famous Beveridge Mining District, which dates to the 1870s. Top gold producers in the Beveridge district were the Bighorn and the Keynote, also called the "Keynot." (Stock certificates from the Keynote turn up on ebay from time to time.) Small communities sprung up around these lively mines and prospects in Craig, Hunter, McElvoy and Pat Keyes Canyons.
Why hasn't someone else already taken all the gold?
Good question, and I really don't have all the answers. This report only indirectly addresses that issue. Although the area is "among the most heavily prospected in the United States," the terrain is also extremely remote and rugged. Elevations vary by as much as "10,000 feet with many deep and inaccessible canyons and numerous spectacular cliffs and rock exposures ... Access to the area is limited to foot trails built in the 1870s and not maintained since 1906."
But, hey, in this day and age, where did you expect to find such a large untapped reserve of gold and silver? Downtown L.A.? So you have to drive a few four-wheel-roads and hike a bit. No big deal, especially since this area is one of the most spectacularly scenic in all of California, if not in all of the United States. (For a better idea of the area's location and features, see the "where is it" section and the map near the end of this ad.)
Detail of map shows location of some of the 54 mines that are described in this book.
High-tech methods used
The authors of this report didn't just stumble off into the desert and pick these
locations with divining rods or by banging on a few rocks. The authors are all noted geologists with the U. S. Geological Survey and U. S. Bureau of Mines, who used some of the most cutting-edge high-tech methods for locating mineral deposits: aeromagnetic and gravity studies, geochemical sampling, fire assaying, atomic-absorption and inductively coupled argon-plasma spectrophotometric methods. Not to worry, though.
The report isn't indecipherable geo-babble. The easy-to-use maps show areas of high-and-medium mineral potential in different colors (see map detail at left); red has the highest potential. However, since it is afterall a book about mining and geology, the latter subject is discussed in some detail.
Rates areas with
highest mineral potential
The maps also pinpoint the most interesting 54 mines (see scan at top of ad). Numbers are keyed to mine names and locations in the book. Just the thing for history buffs, bottle collectors, photographers, geologists, hikers, offroaders, rockhounds, prospectors — just about anyone interested in exploring or learning about old mine sites in the historic Inyo Mountains.
Report is hard to find
The first-edition report and map are very hard to find. This 18-page book is considered primary source material. And the report itself is in beautiful, near-fine condition, one of the best copies that I have seen.
A few of the 54 mines and prospects covered include the:
Keynote mine
— has 8,000 feet (!!!) of underground workings in the main prospect plus another 2,100 feet in 27 nearby smaller properties. About 29,000 ounces of gold were recovered between 1878 and 1906 alone. "The four veins (still) contain about 2.5 MILLION tons (!!!) of inferred resources," according to the report. That's right — 2.5 million tons! So stop your whining about the bad economy, grab a shovel, buy this report and get to work!
Cougar mine
— "The vein is too narrow to be a resource, however, additional gold-bearing veins may occur."
Blueledge mine
— "Additional vein material is probable and gold-silver resources are likely." Current vein is horizontal drusy quartz 1.2-feet thick and 80 feet long in quartz monozonite containing limonite, pyrite and malachite.
No. 18 mine
— two existing exposed veins contain gold but are subeconomic, but "gold resources are probably present at depth." Workings include a 55-foot adit and a 65-foot bench.
Crystal mine
— Two parallel veins trend north. "Too small to be considered a resource. However, subsurface work could disclose gold resources."
Plus more deposits, large and small, famous and forgotten, barren and rich, many of them containing gold and silver.
To see just how much real estate this report covers, see the last scan at the bottom of this ad. Interestingly, some roads in the Inyo Mountains are plainly marked on the Auto Club of Southern California Death Valley map, so the road map can be used to correlate exact mileages to mines and other geologic features on the maps from this book. Topo maps for the area show other more obscure roads and trails.
Where is it?
This section of the Inyo Mountains is about 220 highway miles northeast of Los Angeles, California; nearest town with services is Lone Pine, about 15 miles away. (The tiny town of Keeler, on the northeast edge of Owens Dry Lake is closer, but lacks any services except for a pay phone and post office.)
This area is about 30 miles from the Inyo County seat of Independence and 60 miles from Kern County. Part of the area is also about a mile or less from the new mid-western boundary of Death Valley National Park, but the area is NOT inside the park, so national park prohibitions against mineral collecting and mining DO NOT apply.
Nearest towns with supermarkets and chain stores are Ridgecrest and Bishop, CA, both about 75–80 highway miles away. This section of Inyo Mountains is — for many miles in all directions — chiefly unpopulated mountain and desert wilderness. Although the mining district is only accessible by dirt roads and trails, some are plainly marked on the Auto Club of Southern California Death Valley road map, so that road map can be used to correlate some exact mileages to mines and other geologic features on maps from this report.
The
report
:
Mineral Resources of the Inyo Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California
, Bulletin 1708-A, hard to find
first edition, 1985, by Edwin H. McKee, James E. Kilburn, J. Howard McCarthy Jr., James E. Conrad (U. S. Geological Survey) and Terry J. Close (U.S. Bureau of Mines); publisher: Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 18 pages, 8.5 by 11 inches. Stapled binding, stiff paper covers. One map folded in pocket. Everything is in near-new excellent condition.
As always, I am
extremely
conservative about rating book condition and very detailed in listing any potential flaw, no matter how slight. You get what you pay for. Look elsewhere on ebay, if you want a trashed book — filled with scribbled notes, dog-eared pages and underlined passages that the seller just "somehow forgot" to tell you about in his ad.
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Detail of map from book shows location of study area in Inyo Mountains in relation to Owens Lake, Owens Valley, Owens River, Saline Valley, Cerro Gordo, Swansea, Lone Pine, Keeler, San Lucas Canyon, Bonham Canyon, Sand Canyon, Daisy Canyon and other landmarks. Panamint Valley is the next valley to the east (right) of Saline Valley.
Adjacent and nearby counties
Nearby counties include: Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne and Alpine.
Counties near Inyo include: Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne and Alpine.
Towns, population areas and interesting sites in Inyo County include Aberdeen, the Alabama Hills, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Badwater, Ballarat, Big Pine, Bishop, Cartago, Cerro Gordo, China Lake Naval Weapons Center, Coso Junction, Darwin, Death Valley Junction, Dolomite, Dunmovin, Eureka Sand Dunes, Fossil Falls, Furnace Creek, Geology Village on Tonopah Drive in Goldfield, Greenwater, Haiwee Reservoir, Independence, Keeler, Laws, Lake Sabrina, Little Lake, Lone Pine, Mt. Whitney, Olancha, Owens Lake, Owens River, Panamint Springs, Pearsonville, petroglyphs, Saline Valley, Scotty's Castle, Shoshone, Skidoo, Stovepipe Wells, Swansea, Tecopa, Trona and Ubehebe Crater.
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