1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Blue Monster Mine

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Lead, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10188381
MAS/MILS ID 0060271256
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Monster Mine
Alternate or previous names Monster

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.95762, 36.89306 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Waucoba Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saline Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eureka-Saline Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012 S 037 E 20 SENW California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.95762, 36.89306
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 540, 1912, P. 111.

  • Deposit

    CALIF. STATE MINING BUR. REPORT 17, 1921, P. 290.

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., V. 53, 1957, NO. 42, P. 457.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-MAR-1991 Lowe, Nathan T. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.