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Tungsten Hills District (Bishop District), Inyo Co., California, USA

A W mining area located in T6 & 7S, R31E, MDM, near Bishop.

Mineral List

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Almandine
Andradite
'Andradite-Grossular Series'
Baryte
'Biotite'
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bornite
Calcite
Cervantite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Diopside
Epidote
Ferberite
var: Reinite
Ferrimolybdite
Ferro-Actinolite
Fluorite
Galena
'Garnet'
Grossular
Hastingsite
Hedenbergite
'Hornblende'
Jarosite
Laumontite
Magnetite
Metastibnite
Molybdenite
Muscovite
Pectolite
Phlogopite
Powellite
Prehnite
Pyrite
'Pyroxene Group'
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Ramdohrite
Sanidine
'Scapolite'
Scheelite
Sillimanite
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Stibnite
Thaumasite
Titanite
'Tourmaline'
Valentinite
Vesuvianite
'Wolframite'
Wollastonite


55 entries listed. 45 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

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References

Knopf, Adolf (1917a), Tungsten deposits of northwestern Inyo County California: USGS Bulletin 640: 229-249; […(abstract): Washington Academy of Science Journal: 7: 357; …Geol. Zentralbl., Band 28: 165]: 233-238.

Hess, Frank L. & Esper S. Larsen (1922), Contact-metamorphic tungsten deposits of the United States: USGS Bulletin 725: 269, 276.

Lemmon, Dwight Moulton (1941a), Tungsten deposits in the Tungsten Hills, Inyo County, California: USGS Bulletin 922-Q: 497-514.

Lemmon, Dwight Moulton (1941c), Tungsten deposits in the Sierra Nevada near Bishop California: USGS Bulletin 931-E: 79-104.

Bateman, Paul C. (1945), Pine Creek and Adamson tungsten mines, Inyo County, California: California Division Mines Report 42: 231-250.

Trainer, John N. (1947), Eight recent garnet finds Rocks & Minerals: 22(9): 811-818, Sept. 1947, containing a section entitled “Grossularite from near Bishop, Inyo County, California.”

Bateman, Paul C., Max P. Erickson & Paul D. Proctor (1950), Geology and tungsten deposits of the Tungsten Hills, Inyo County, California: California Journal of Mines & Geology: 46: 23-42.

Bateman, Paul C. (1965), Geology and tungsten mineralization of the Bishop district, California: USGS PP 470: 127-128.

Gray, R.F., Hoffman, V.F., Bagan, R.J., and McKinley, H.L. (1968) Bishop tungsten district. In Ore Deposits of the United States, 1933-1967. The Graton-Sales volume, New York. A.I.M.E.: 1531-1554.

Fenne, F.K. and Price, W.H. (1973) Genesis of scheelite from the Pine Creek mine, Bishop district, California. Economic Geology: 68: 1214.

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