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MRDS database Dep. ID file #10039572, MRDS ID #M050354; and, Dep. ID #10185976, MAS ID #0040030152.
A former small surface and underground Au-Ag-W-Cu-Pb mine located on 2 unpatented claims in South-central sec. 30, T.23S., R.20E., lower Bear Canyon, at approximately 6,000 feet of altitude, on private land. First produced 1900. Owned by the Tungsten Mining Co.
Mineralization is 4 quartz veins which crop out, with scheelite in two of them. The thickness is 6 inches at surface to 12-18 inches thick from dump material. These veins strike Northward (N25W - N20-30E) and dip from medium angles to almost vertical (30-60SW or 40NW). Prevailing rocks are Mesozoic maroon shale and sandstone intruded on the NE and South by granite. One vein dips 55º West and averages about 1½ feet (0.5 meters) thick. Mineralization is sporadic gold and silver values with scattered scheelite and sulfides in coarsely-crystalline, grayish-white quartz veins cutting Cretaceous Glance Conglomerate and andesitic volcanics containing exotic blocks of Paleozoic limestone.
Workings are surface and shallow shaft workings. Minor production of gold-silver ore was made in the early 1900's. Several hundred tons of tungsten concentrates were produced in 1941. The gold grade was reported as 0.31 oz/ton.
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