Gerstley Mine

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Also known as State Lease. It was discovered in 1922 by Johnny Sheridan and later sold to Clarence Rasor, a field engineer for the Pacific Coast Borax Company and after whom Rasor station was named on the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad. Rasor sold it to PCB in 1924, which built a baby gauge railroad was built to connect it with the Tonopah & Tidewater. The mine was closed in Oct 1927, and the railroad rail and equipment transferred to the then new PCB mine at Boron. The buildings were moved to Furnace Creek where they became part of the new Furnace Creek Ranch tourist development. The more recent buildings once located here, post-PCB, were removed between 2012 and 2014.

From the California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan. 1957:

Ownership: United States Borax Company, 510 W. 6th St., Los Angeles and State of California (State Lease No. 15).

Colemanite and ulexite occur as bedded deposits in Tertiary lake beds, which are capped by basalt . Workings consist of adits, drifts, crosscuts, and stopes. Worked intermittently, ore being hauled by truck to Dunn for rail shipment.

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