Mine detail: Mountain Pass Mine and Mill

Previously called 'Lucky StrikeBirthdayMountain Pass Bastnasite MineMountain Pass MineSulphide QueenMineral Hill'

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Location

Lat / long: 35.4772, -115.53304

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Cerium, REE
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Ore: Bastnasite, Bastnaesite, Monazite, Apatite, Barite, Celestite
Gangue: Calcite, Dolomite, Siderite, Ankerite, Quartz
Other material: Strontianite, Galena
Discovery year: 1949

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1951

Geology

Host type:Gneiss

References

MRDSM023680
MAS60710189
DEP10212814
Reference{Deposit:: Ceramic News. New Rare Earth Processing Plant. August, 1965}{Deposit:: Burchfiel, B.C., and Davis, G.A., 1988, Mesozoic thrust faults and Cenozoic low-angle normal faults, eastern Spring Mountains Nevada, and Clark Mountains thrust complex, California in This Extended Land: Geological journeys in the southern Basin and Range, Field Trip Guidebook, Geological Society of America, Western Cordilleran Section, Las Vegas, Nevada}{Deposit:: Evans. J. R. Californi* Mountain Pass Mine Now Producing Europium Oxide. Ca Div. Mines And Geol., Mineral Inf. Service, V. 18, Feb. 1966, Pp. 23-32.}{Deposit:: _____. Relationship Of Mineralization To Major Structural Features In The Mountain Pass Area, San Bernardino County, Ca. Ca Geol., July 1974}{Deposit:: Calif. Jour. Mines And Geol., V. 49, 1953, Tabulated List, No. 189}{Deposit:: Fuerstenau, D. W., Pradip, L. A. Kahn, S. Raghavan. Alternate Reagent Scheme For The Flotation Of Mountain Pass Rare-Earth Ore. Pre-Prints - Xiv International Processing Conference. Publ. By Cim, Montreal, Quebec, 1983.}{Deposit:: Hewett. D. F. History Of The Discovery At Mountain Pass, California, In Olson, J. C., And Others, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits Of The Mountain Pass District, San Bernardino County, Ca. U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 261, 1954}{Deposit:: Hewett, D.F., 1956, Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California and Nevada: U.S. Geol. Survey Professional Paper 275, 172 p.}{Deposit:: Industrial Minerals. Minerals In The U.S. South-West: Breaking Rocks In The Hot Sun. Industrial Minerals, No. 272, May 1990}{Deposit:: Lindsey, D. S. Mountain Pass Mine, Mountain Pass District, San Bernardino County, Ca. Bumines File Report, September 1978.}{Deposit:: Morrice, E. And M. M. Wong. Flotation Of Rare Earths From Bastnaesite Ore. Bumines RI 8689, 1982, 13 p.}{Deposit:: National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration. Climates Of The States, V. 2, Western States. U.S. Dept. Commerce, 1974}{Deposit:: Olson, J. C., D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, And W. N. Sharp. Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits Of The Mountain Pass District, San Bernardino County, Ca. U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 261, 1954, 75 p.}{Deposit:: Olsen, J.C., and Pray, L.C., 1954, The Mountain Pass rare earth deposits, in The Geology of Southern California, Calif. Bureau of Mines and Geology Bull. 170}{Deposit:: Parkhurst, D. The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Project. Ca Mining Jour., Mar. 1983}{Deposit:: Ritchey, J. L. Mountain Pass Mine, San Bernardino County, Ca. Bumines MAS Property Evaluation File Report, Sept. 1983, 27 p.}{Deposit:: Sharp, W. N., And L. C. Pray. Geologic Map Of Bastnaesite Deposits Of The Birthday Claims, San Bernardino County, Ca. U.S. Geological Survey Map Mf-4, 1952, Scale 1:600.}{Deposit:: Bureau Of Mines. Bureau Of Mines Cost Estimating System Handbook. Bumines IC 9142, Vols. 1 And 2, 1987.}{Deposit:: Bureau Of Mines. Mineral Commodity Summaries. U.S. Dept. Interior, 1983}{Deposit:: Warhol. W. N. Rare Earths And The Mountain Pass, California Operations. SME-AIME, Pre-Print No. 80-380, Oct. 1980, 7 p.}{Deposit:: Warhol, W. N. Molycor* Mountain Pass Operations, In Fife, D. L., And A. R. Brown, Eds., Geology And Mineral Wealth Of The California Desert. South Coast Geol. Soc., 1980}{Deposit:: Wilson. T. A. Rare Earths From Lighter Flints To X-Rays. SME-AIME Annual. Meeting Pre-Print No. 82-52, Feb. 1982, 3 p.}{Deposit:: Woyski, Margaret S., 1980, Petrology of the Mountain Pass carbonatite complex - A review, in Geology and mineral wealth of the California Desert, Fife, D.L. and Brown A.R., Eds., South Coast Geological Society}{Deposit:: Wright, L. A., And Others. Mines And Mineral Deposits Of San Bernardino County, CA. CA Jour. Mines And Geol., V. 49, 1953}
ReporterRidenour, James, Weeks, Robert, Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.), Ritchey, Joseph L