USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Kern County
Tom Moore
Unconfirmed Antimony Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts 4 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Kern
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Antimony
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Sb mine located in the SW¼SW¼ sec. 24, T27S, R33E, MDM, about 9.3 km SE of Lake Isabella (town) and about 9.6 km ESE of Bodfish, along the N canyon wall of Erskine Creek (SW slope of Laura Peak), on private (patented) land. MRDS database state…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 4 adit symbols
- Shaft : Lake Isabella South , 1972
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Cervantite
- commodity:Antimony
- Kermesite
- Native Antimony
- Senarmontite
- Stibiconite
- Stibnite
- Valentinite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (2)
- mapped adit symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 80569
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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