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Pine Creek Mine, Mount Morgan, Bishop, Tungsten Hills, Tungsten Hills District (Bishop District), Inyo Co., California, USA

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Pine Creek Mine, Mount Morgan, Bishop, Tungsten Hills, Tungsten Hills District, Inyo Co., California, USA

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Latitude: 37°23'34"N
Longitude: 118°43'8"W

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A former W-Mo mine located in secs. 30 & 31, T6S, R30E, MDM, and in secs. 19 & 20, T6N, R31E, MDM, on the S slope of Mount Morgan near the head of Pine Creek, about 20 miles W of Bishop, at 11,000 feet of altitude.

Mineralization is a W orebody in marble with tactite. The scheelite ore body is in metamorphic rocks and is 7 miles long and 1 mile wide.

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26 entries listed. 22 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

USA

California
- Inyo Co.
  - Tungsten Hills District (Bishop District)
    - Tungsten Hills
      - Bishop
        Mount Morgan
        Pine Creek Mine
        No. 4 Glory Hole

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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].

Tucker, W. Burling (1921), Los Angeles field division: California Mining Bureau. Report 17: 296, 301.

Hess, Frank L. & Esper S. Larsen (1922), Contact-metamorphic tungsten deposits of the United States: USGS Bulletin 725: 275, 276.

Young, George J. (1926), Mining tungsten at Pine Creek: Engineering & Mining Journal: 121: 605-606.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1081.

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

Bateman, Paul C. (1965), Geology and tungsten mineralization of the Bishop district, California: USGS PP 470: 127-128, 129, 130, 134.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 111, 225, 268, 294, 308, 328, 329.

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.: 1549, 1550, 1552, 1553.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 79, 89, 94, 126, 188, 332, 339, 341, 367, 387, 401, 405, 409, 474, 478, 489, 495, 501-502.

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