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Mining History - Lone Pine Mining District
Reopening of Cerro Gordo By 1905 mining activity was reviving in the Panamint region, and hope was seen for many of the old productive mines. Cerro Gordo was purchased by the Great Western Ore Purchasing and Reduction Company, which envisioned building a 100-ton smelter for custom work and also to process ore left on the Cerro Gordo dumps, earlier considered too low grade for the technological methods then in use. By modern methods the ore could be worked profitably.
By 1907 high-grade zinc was found in the old Cerro Gordo stopes, and ore shipments were begun. In 1912 the Cerro
Gordo group, whose property now consisted of tunnels and shafts and an aerial tramway connecting the mine with
the narrow-gauge Southern Pacific Railroad at
Keeler ,
which had absorbed the old Carson & Colorado, was acquired
by Utah mining men. Shipping 1,000 tons of ore daily, Cerro Gordo now became the largest producer of zinc carbonates
in the United States.
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