Lotus Mine

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Marked as such in TopoZone. Also known as the Keystone Mine and Monte Cristo Mines.

From the California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan. 1951:

Six unpatented claims are owned by Lotus Mines, Incorporated, B.C. Flint, president, 1524 N. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California.

A highly fractured quartzite bed overlain by dolomitic limestone contains free gold in quartz seams and fissure veins. The limestone is in contact with meta-andesite. The veins are a few inches to four feet in length and assay from $2.50 to $50.00 per ton. Some lead-silver-bearing veins in the limestone have been prospected.

Principal work done on the deposit consists of prospect cuts and adits. From one 210-foot adit a few hundred tons of ore was stoped in a drift 30 feet from the portal. A short adit 60 feet below the 210-foot adit also encountered ore. A third adit is 250 feet long.

Two aerial trams and a 2800-foot inclined rail-tram are used to transport ore from the mine to the camp where the road from Panamint Valley through Goler Canyon ends.

Lotus Mines, Incorporated, through their predecessors, Monte Cristo Mines, acquired the property from Carl Mengel in 1935. Ore produced from the property was sold for approximately $32,000.

Exploration and development is done intermittently.