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

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A flat (sic) located W of Bishop and West Bishop in secs. 34-36, T6S, R31E, MDM and vicinity and in the NE¼ T7S, R31E, MDM.

Mineralization is a calc-silicate skarn deposit.

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]: 238, 247-248.

Tucker, W. Burling (1921), Los Angeles field division: California Mining Bureau. Report 17: 302-303.

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

Tucker, W. Burling & Reid J. Sampson (1938), Mineral resources of Inyo County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 34(4): 462, 466.

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

Tucker, W. Burling & Reid J. Sampson (1943a), Current notes on activities in the strategic minerals, Los Angeles field district: California Division Mines Report 39: 60.

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.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 106, 107, 311, 329.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 68.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Almandine Andradite 'Andradite-Grossular Series' Baryte Biotite Bismuthinite Bismutite Bornite Calcite Cassiterite ? Cervantite Chalcopyrite Chrysocolla Diopside

Epidote Ferberite var: Reinite Ferrimolybdite Ferro-Actinolite Fluorite Galena 'Garnet' Grossular Hastingsite Hedenbergite 'Hornblende' Jarosite Laumontite

Magnetite 'Marble' 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

59 entries listed. 46 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

USA California Inyo Co. Tungsten Hills District (Bishop District) Tungsten Hills Bishop Adamson Mine (Panaminas Inc.; Adamson claims; Adamson Tungsten deposit; Wheeler Ridge Tungsten Mine; Blue Jay claim) Aeroplane Mine (Mesa Mine; Standard Tungsten City Milling Co. Mine; Moonlight Mine) Andrew Curtis Mine Bishop Antimony Mine Bishop Concentrate and Cleaning Company Mine (Bishop Tungsten Mines Mill) Jackrabbit Mine (Jackrabbit Tungsten Mine; Tungsten City Mine) Mount Morgan Pine Creek Mine No. 4 Glory Hole Rossi Mine (Rossi Tungsten Mine) Round Valley Unspecified W occurrence Unnamed Garnet Group occurrences Unspecified Feldspar occurrence Deep Canyon

USA California Inyo Co. Tungsten Hills District (Bishop District) Tungsten Hills Deep Canyon Little Sister Mine (Tungsten Mines Company) Lakeview Mine (Lakeview Tungsten Mine; Carpenter and Brown; Gable Lakes Mine) Little McGee Creek Lucky Strike Mine (El Diablo Mining Company property) Round Valley Bishop Creek Round Valley Mine (Nobles Camp) Unspecified Baryte-Sn occurrences Unspecified Wollastonite occurrence Round Valley area Round Valley Mine (Nobles Camp; Big Shoot Noble; Big Shot) Little Shot Mine West Bishop Round Valley area Western Mine (Western Tungsten Mine) Tungsten Blue Mine (Pappas property) White Caps Mine (Little McGee Creek Mine) Yaney Mine