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Wonder Mine (Wonder prospect; Wallace Wonder Mine; Wonder No 1), Darwin, Darwin District, Inyo Co., California, USA
Latitude: 36°17'2"N
Longitude: 117°34'34"W
Longitude: 117°34'34"W
It consisted of 4 claims, N and S of the Lane Canyon Road (now N. Main Street), originally owned by Richard Wallace, later the Anaconda Co owned the mine.
The older workings consisted of an adit S of the canyon road. The newer workings, N of the Canyon Road, consisted of 2 inclined shafts, an adit and several surface pits.
Little is known of the older parts. The mine N of the canyon road was mainly worked in 1947. Ore had recoverable 2.5% Pb, 3.8 oz Ag per ton and some copper.
The ore occurs as irregular lenses of galena and lead-carbonate along a fissure in the limestone that strikes northwest and dips 45° W.
The vein-filling is a coarse calcite with some crystalline fluorite. Local structures include a fault and fold.
Production data are found in: Goodwin, J.G. (1957): 523.
It is argued by some that the Wonder mine and the Bruce mine are one entity but Hall, Wayne Everett & E.M. Mackevett list it as separate mines, furthermore the Wonder mine is a Silver - Lead mine, whereas the Bruce mine is a Tungsten mine.
Updated description and position of the mine N36.28397 W117.57632 and N36.28501 W117.57648 by Richard Muster, based on observations in 2007.
The older parts are at N36.28020 W117.58036, N36.27976 W117.57995, N36.28003 W117.57941 and N36.28054 W117.57949.
In the Lane Canyon are the following mines :
Wonder Mine
Bruce Mine
Standard Extension Mine
Santa Ana Mine
Lane Mine
Jackass Mine
Mineral List
| Calcite Caledonite Cerussite | Chalcopyrite Fluorite Galena | 'Garnet' Linarite Orthoclase | Pyrite Quartz var: Jasper |
12 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.
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References
State Mineralogist’s report, XXII, (1912), p504.
Knopf, Adolf (1914), The Darwin silver-lead mining district, California: USGS Bulletin 580: 1-18; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 21: 597]: 17.
California Journal of Mines and Geology (1938) Vol. 34, p424, 426, 459, 480, 559.
Goodwin, Joseph Grant (1957) Lead and zinc in California. California Journal of Mines and Geology, Division of Mines: 53(3&4): 523.
Hall, Wayne Everett & E.M. Mackevett (1958), Economic geology of the Darwin quadrangle, Inyo County, California: Calif Division of Mines Special Report 51, 77 pp.: 41.
USGS (2005), Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, loc. file ID # 10034002 and # 10261093
Mineral Availability System (MAS) database file # 0060270563.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 119, 244.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 102 (map 3-6), 299.
Rocks & Minerals (2006): 81: 208-213.
Knopf, Adolf (1914), The Darwin silver-lead mining district, California: USGS Bulletin 580: 1-18; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 21: 597]: 17.
California Journal of Mines and Geology (1938) Vol. 34, p424, 426, 459, 480, 559.
Goodwin, Joseph Grant (1957) Lead and zinc in California. California Journal of Mines and Geology, Division of Mines: 53(3&4): 523.
Hall, Wayne Everett & E.M. Mackevett (1958), Economic geology of the Darwin quadrangle, Inyo County, California: Calif Division of Mines Special Report 51, 77 pp.: 41.
USGS (2005), Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, loc. file ID # 10034002 and # 10261093
Mineral Availability System (MAS) database file # 0060270563.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 119, 244.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 102 (map 3-6), 299.
Rocks & Minerals (2006): 81: 208-213.
External Links
http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0580a/report.pdf (Adolph Knopf 1914)
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