Bald Peak Mine, Bald Peak, Wildrose Mining District (Wild Rose Mining District), Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USAi
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36° 18' 44'' North , 117° 7' 1'' West
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A former talc (?) mine located apparently in sec. the W½W½ sec. 4 (on the sec. 5 boundary), T19S, R45E, MDM, 2.6 km (1.6 miles) WNW of Bald Peak (coordinates of record), N of Nemo Canyon, on National Park Service land (Death Valley National Park).
NOTE: The coordinates and T&R values were discerned from the mine designation on the topo map which corresponds exactly with the description in Greene (1981) (the only such mine designation and mine symbols in the area).
This site, located about 1-1/2 miles northwest of Bald Peak, was not visited by this writer, both because of its inaccessibility and because it had been inspected by two members of the LCS survey crew, Bill Tweed and Ken Keane, in December 1975. The area is reached via a dirt road leading east for 2-1/2 miles from the Emigrant Canyon Road about 1-1/2 miles south of Emigrant Pass. This access was reportedly badly damaged by heavy rains in the fall of 1975.
The site appeared to Tweed and Keane to be a talc operation, dating from perhaps the 1940s or 1950s (probably a post-Depression Era talc operation). On-site was a wooden-framed building with corrugated-metal walls and roof standing on a level platform area that was supported by a corrugated-metal retaining wall. A short distance further southeast up the canyon was a good-sized one-chute ore bin; the mine workings were located on top of the steep slope behind.Greene, 1981
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Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
North AmericaContinent
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Antler Foreland BasinBasin
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mojave DomainDomain
- Southern Basin and RangeWide Rift
USA
- Death Valley National ParkNational Park
- Sierra NevadaMountain Range
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