Mine detail: Reed Flat Mine

Previously called 'Birch Creek Rare Ii AreaMexican Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 37.38054, -118.18173

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Other material: Cerussite, Galena, Hemimorphite, Silver
Discovery year: 1862

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1909

Geology

References

MRDSW023802
MAS60270212
DEP10212141
Reference{Deposit:: BUTNER, D. W., 1945, MEXICAN LEAD MINE INYO COUNTY,}{Deposit:: CALIFORNIA ACCESS ROAD REPORT UNPUBLISHED BUREAU OF}{Deposit:: MINES, REPORT ON FILE AT THE USBM WFOC SPOKANE WA. P.6}{Deposit:: TUCKER, W. B., 1926, TWENTY-SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE}{Deposit:: MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, V. 22,}{Deposit:: NO. 1, P. 497.}{Deposit:: TUCKER, W. B., AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES}{Deposit:: OF INYO COUNTY: THIRTY-FOURTH REPORT OF THE STATE}{Deposit:: MINERALOGIST, CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY}{Deposit:: V. 34, NO. 4, P. 452, 478.}{Deposit:: NORMAN, L. A., AND STEWART, R. R., 1951, MINES AND MINERAL}{Deposit:: RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES}{Deposit:: AND GEOLOGY, V. 47, NO. 1. P. 74-75.}{Deposit:: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., V. 53, 1957, NO. 81, P. 489.}{Deposit:: RAINS, R. L., AND IVERSON, S. R., 1983, MINERAL RESOURCES OF}{Deposit:: THE BIRCH CREEK RARE II AREA (NO. 5060), INYO COUNTY,}{Deposit:: CALIFORNIA: U. S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT 90-83,}{Deposit:: NO. 10, P. 14.}
ReporterRains, Richard