Little-known mines, Panamint Mtns, Death Valley, Calif, RARE 1st ed, sep MAPS !!

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Rare 1940 first-edition report & color maps
pinpoint little-known mines in Panamints
Deposits are below Telescope Peak and near Death Valley, California; report is in fine condition, not an ex-library book
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his 67-year-old first-edition report leads you to five little-known mines, high in the rugged and remote Panamint Mountains, near Death Valley, California.
This is the 1940 first edition with two oversize three-color maps. One map — showing the north side of Wildrose Canyon — folds out from the text. The
other even larger map, which shows part of the area between Wildrose and Tuber Canyons, is folded in a rear pocket attached to the report's rear cover.
Report is in beautiful shape
Everything is in fine condition. Looks like the report was never even opened before I got it. No serious collection of Death Valley historical source literature is complete without this report on these little-known mines — the Monarch mine, Combination mine, Monopoly deposit, Mohawk deposit and the Kennedy veins.
Many other mines in the area
Author Donald E. White reveals a wealth of information on the five mine locations, plus he says that there are "many other prospects in the area" beside the five mines named above.
Antimony Deposits of the Wildrose Canyon Area, Inyo County, California
also details subterranean workings, mine production and minerals mined. Because this is a report on geology and mining, White goes into quite a lot of detail about geology, mine geology and geology of nearby areas.
Like other sought-after mining reports on the Mojave Desert and Inyo County, the maps are arguably the real prize here. They would look
great
framed, either singly or nicely grouped together. Unlike some other mining maps, these look less polished and more hand drawn, perhaps by a geologist in the field (they probably were drawn that way). Therein lies their charm.
Pyrite, stibnite and Pyrite crystals are beautiful
Minerals recovered from this area include pyrite, stibnite (the primary antimony ore), antimony oxides, quartz, fluorite ("most of it purple but much of it white"),
gypsum and jarosite. Pyrite and quartz can form beautiful crystals.
True, antimony has some industrial uses (alloys, medicine, storage batteries, cable sheathing and paint pigments). But as any rockhound knows, stibnite crystals can be striking (left). Their color is a beautiful steel gray to silver with a metallic luster. Crystals are opaque and orthorhombic; habits include bladed or acicular, often bent or curved due to twinning. Fluorite — often bright purple and translucent or transparent — also can occur in beautiful crystals.
Small detail of three-color map that folds out from book: "Geologic map and cross section of the north side of Wildrose Canyon, Panamint Range, Inyo County, Calif."
Real map is about 13 by 11 inches.
Also valuable to stock certificate collectors
Because this report has mine names, company names and brief mine histories (including amounts of actual production and dates), it is useful to collectors of stock certificates. Stock certificates for the Wildrose Mining District sometimes show up on ebay, and demand top dollar. Yes, the certificates are for mines in this area.
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Where is it?
The Wildrose Canyon area is in Inyo County and part of Death Valley National Park, on the west slope of the Panamint Range, seven miles northwest of Telescope Peak. At the time of this report, it was "easily accessible" by road from Death Valley, Lone Pine and Trona, the latter town being 45 miles to the southwest. The road still very much exists through Wildrose Canyon. However, I do not know if the side roads off the canyon road — shown on the maps in the book — are still open to vehicles or if you would have to hike into the mines.
To the west of Wildrose Canyon lies Panamint Valley, also part of Death Valley National Park. Access to this spectacular valley is by State Route 190, which extends from Olancha to Death Valley. You can also use the old Eichbaum Death Valley Toll Road from Darwin, California — past Darwin Falls to 190 near Panamint Springs An improved county road also passes through Panamint Valley from Trona.
Although there is a campground in Wildrose Canyon itself, the only hotel/motel accommodations near Wildrose Canyon are at Panamint Springs Resort (motel, restaurant, gas). Supply centers are Lone Pine (46 miles west of the Panamint Valley) and Trona. Ballarat, the famous Panamint Valley ghost town, is nearby but has virtually no services (the town only has one full-time resident).
The book:
Antimony Deposits of the Wildrose Canyon Area, Inyo County, California
, Geological Survey Bulletin 922-K, by Donald E. White, United States Department of the Interior, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1940, first edition, 18 pages, six by nine inches, stiff paper covers, stapled binding. Front and back cover show slight yellowing at binding; inside pages are a bit yellowed at the edges; otherwise everything is in beautiful condition — not a crease or wrinkle to be found. Map in pocket is folded with some slight rippling, otherwise in very good shape. Map pocket has yellowed last interior page of book in shape of pocket.
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. 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 — then look elsewhere on ebay.
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Panel of three-color map in pocket: "Geologic map and cross section of a part of the area between Wildrose and Tuber Canyons."
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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