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Champion Mine (White Mountain Mine), White Mountain, Laws, White Mts, Mono Co., California, USA

Latitude: 37°24'N
Longitude: 118°21'W
A former sillimanite mine located in sec. 13, T3S, R33E, MDM, 0.4 km (1,300 feet) WSW of Laws (Inyo County), and about 7 miles E of Mocalno, N of Bishop. Owned by the Champion Sillimanite Corp.

Metamorphic sillimanite deposit hosted in quartzite.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Aluminocopiapite
Alunite
Andalusite
'Apatite'
Apophyllite-(KF)
Augelite
Baryte
Corundum
Crandallite
Diaspore
Fluorapatite
var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Fluorellestadite
Fluorite
Goethite
Goyazite
Halotrichite
Hematite
var: Specularite
Hydroxylapatite
Ilmenite
Jarosite
Kalinite
Kaolinite
Lazulite
Limonite
Magnesiofoitite
Muscovite
Natroalunite
var: Strontian Natroalunite

Orthoclase
Phosphosiderite
Pickeringite
Pyrite
Pyrophyllite
Quartz
Rutile
Schorl
Scorzalite
'Strengite-Variscite Series'
Sulphur
Svanbergite
Titanite
Topaz
'Tourmaline
var: Achroite'

Trolleite
Viséite
Woodhouseite (TL)
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


51 entries listed. 40 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

Knopf, Adolf (1917b), An andalusite mass in the Precambrian of the Inyo Range, California: Washington Academy of Science Journal: 7: 549-552.

Peck, Albert B. (1924), Note on andalusite from California: a new use and some thermal properties: American Mineralogist: 9: 123-129; […California Mining Bureau. Report 20: 149-154 (1924)].

Melhase, John (1925), Andalusite in California (Inyo Range): Engineering & Mining Journal: 120: 91-94; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 37: 73 (1928)]: 92.

Jeffery, Joseph Arthur & Charles D. Woodhouse (1931), Note on a deposit of andalusite in Mono County, California: its occurrence and technical importance: California Mining Bureau. Report 27: 459-464.

Sampson, Reid J. & W. Burling Tucker (1931), Feldspar, silica, andalusite, and cyanite deposits of California: California Mining Bureau. Report 27: 407-464.

Jeffery, Joseph Arthur & Charles D. Woodhouse (1932), Mining andalusite in Mono County, California: Arizona Mining Journal: 15(16): 5-6, 43-44.

Kerr, Paul Francis (1932), Occurrence of andalusite and related minerals at White Mountain, California: Economic Geology: 27: 614-643.

Lemmon, Dwight Moulton (1935), Augelite from Mono County California American Mineralogist: 20: 664-668.

Woodhouse, C.D. (1936), Change them every 10,000 miles: Mineralogist: 4(3): 3-4, 37-38.

Lemmon, Dwight Moulton (1937),Woodhouseite, a new mineral of the beudantite group American Mineralogist: 22: 939-948.

Lemmon, Dwight Moulton (1937), Geology of the andalusite deposits in the northern Inyo Range, California. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University: 42-43.

Peacock, Martin Alfred & D.A. Moddle (1941), On a crystal of Augelite from California: Mineralogical Magazine: 26: 105-115.

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: 872, 911, 1007.

Woodhouse, C.D. (1951), The Mono County andalusite mine: Rocks & Minerals: 34: 486-493.

Wright, L.A. (1957), Kyanite, Andalusite, and Related Minerals, in Mineral Commodities of California, California Division of Mines Bulletin 176: 275-280.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 74, 78, 88, 97, 161, 169, 187, 216, 226, 233, 240, 293, 306, 325, 344, 356, 357, 368, 370, 388, 392.

Gross, E.B. and Parwel, A. (1968) Rutile mineralization at the White Mountain andalusite deposit, California. Arkiv för Mineralogie och Geologi 4, No. 29: 493-497.

Sinkankas, J. (1976) Gemstones of North America II. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York: 256.

Wise, W. S. (1977): Mineralogy of the Champion mine White Mountains, California. Mineralogical Record 8, 478-486.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 52, 72, 143, 144, 161, 163, 169, 265, 277, 293, 304, 305, 307, 309 (photo 9-2B), 310, 311, 316, 347, 416, 426, 437, 450, 454, 461, 503.

Mineralogical Record (1987): 18: 360.

Mineralogical Record (1988): 19: 331.

External Links

www.baymin.org/Field/ChampionMine/ChampionMineGeology.pdf.

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