Josephine Mine

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Part of the Maxmaur-Marguerite group. The stamp mill once located here burned in the summer of 1862.

The Josephine Mine is one of the oldest and most extensive mines in the Old Coso Mining District. The mine is listed in the XII Report of the State Mineralogist, 1894 as a property with numerous workings and owned at the time by J. Wilson of Lone Pine, Calif. The report indicated that most ore from the mine had been removed by Mexican miners and worked in arrastras many years prior to 1894. The mine was listed as idle by the XIII Report of the State Mineralogist, 1896, but still owned by J. Wilson.

The Report of State Mineralogist, Mineral Resource of Invo County, Tucker, 1938, lists L. D. Owen, of Darwin, Calif., as the mine owner. In 1937, the Josephine Mine was leased to the Coso Mining and Milling Company who subleased it to G. N. Sackett. During 1937, approximately 100 tons of material was mined. Ten tons of shipped material was valued at $40/ton, and a 20-ton shipment averaged $26/ton. The last claims filed before Navy acquisition were listed as the Three Star I, II, and III Claims, filed by Josephine Delys Owen on 1 July 1940. Louis D. Owen, father of Josephine D. Owen, came into the Old Coso area about 1910 and worked the Josephine Mine, the Yucca Mine, and others in the area sporadically until the early 1940s.

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