The Swank is a lead mine located in Inyo county, California at an elevation of 7,720 feet.
About the MRDS Data:
All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 7,720 Feet (2,353 Meters)
Commodity: Lead
Lat, Long: 37.22479, -117.94033
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Swank MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Swank
Secondary: Mineral Hill
Commodity
Primary: Lead
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: California
County: Inyo
Land Status
Land ownership: Unknown
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Los Angeles Ranges
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Location): AS OF MAY, 1997 OPERATION COULD NOT BE LOCATED AT STATED MILS LAT/LONG & TOWNSHIP & RANGE. THIS LOCATION IS NOT IN INYO, CTY, CALIFORNIA. PROPERTY COULD BE RELATED TO THE SUITCASE-MINERAL HILL PROPERTY IN INYO, CTY, CALIFORNIA. HOWEVER A GOOD LOCATION OF THIS PROPERTY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED. THE MAP NAME LISTED IN MILS IS INCORRECT FOR THIS PROPERTY. THIS PROPERTY COULD BE NEAR THE BIG FOUR MINE MAS SEQ# 0060270203: LOCATED ALONG THE WEST SLOPE OF THE PANAMINT MT RANGE IN INYO, CTY, CALIFORNIA.Latitude had a typo. It is corrected.
Comment (Location): Original lat/long DMS N-34-13-50, W-118-2-59 agrees with the records UTM but disagrees with everything else. It plots in Los Angeles county and disagrees with DD in the same record. In this case, the WGS84 lat/long was calculated from the DMS so it was also wrong. I interpreted the previous (1997) location comment with it's curious lower-case prologue to mean the lat/long was not to be trusted (even though the DD coords 37.2306, -118.0497 are fairly close to the old_MRDS coords). I used the old_MRDS coords of 37.22472, -117.94111 since it had consistent UTM and a description of 17mi NE of Big Pine (must be the city, not the mine). The UTM coords were cleared.
References
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