Rex Montis Mine

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106508
MRDS ID X023771
Record type Site
Current site name Rex Montis Mine
Alternate or previous names Mountain View
Related records 10285021

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.34315, 36.79634 (WGS84)
Elevation 3658
Relative position 0.4 MI E OF SUMMIT OF KEARSARGE MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kearsarge Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Whitney(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fresno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Owens Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

John Muir Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013S 033E 24 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. LOC. PROJECTED; LAND UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD DESCRIBED AS RUSTY

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result HAND SAMPLES ASSAYED 4 OZ. AU/TON, 18-30% CU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.07M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Beaveridge

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NO OTHER PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 ADITS. UPPER AND LOWER TUNNELS AT 12,000 AND 10,500 FT. ELEVATIONS. EARLY WORKINGS EXPOSED 3 ORE SHOOTS. STOPES ON SHOOTS WERE 80, 20 AND 55 FT. LONG, AND AVG. 3.5 FT. IN THICKNESS. SHAFT OF 10,500 FT. ELEVATION, FROM WHICH STOPES HOLED THROUGH TO SURFACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORMAN, L.A., JR. AND STEWART, RICHARD M., 1951, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 47, NO. 1, P. 161

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 415-416

  • Deposit

    WARING, C.A., AND HUGHENIN, E., 1917, GOLD-INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 15, P. 82

  • Production

    NORMAN AND STEWART (1951)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 4 PATENTED CLAIMS INCLUDE ARCTIC, BOOMERANG, IBEX AND MOUNTAIN VIEW. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit 3 VEINS, EACH AVG. 3.5 FT. IN THICKNESS, WITH HIGH-GRADE ORE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative California resources

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