Bishop Mine (Bishop Silver-Cobalt Mines; Cobalt Mining Co. claims; Bishop Silver claims), Chocolate Peak, Bishop area, Inyo Co., California, USA
Latitude: 37°8'40"N
Longitude: 118°32'46"W
A Ag-Co-Ni-Au-Cu-Zn-As mine located in sec. 14 and in the SE¼ sec. 23, T9S, R31E (MD), on the S Fork of Bishop Creek, on the W side of Chocolate Peak, 500 feet E of Long Lake.
Mineralization is hosted in metamorphic rocks.
References
Tucker, W. Burling (1926), Imperial, Inyo Counties: California Mining Bureau. Report 22: 474.
Lenhart, W.B. (1938), Milling methods and costs of the Cardinal Gold Mining Company, Bishop Creek, California: US Bureau Mines Information Circular 7012: 4.
Schroter, G.A. (1938), Some hydrothermal gold deposits near Bishop, California: Engineering & Mining Journal: 139: 53.
Tucker, W. Burling & Reid J. Sampson (1938), Mineral resources of Inyo County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 34(4): 378-379.
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: 749.
Bateman, Paul C. (1956), Economic geology of the Bishop Tungsten district, California: California Division Mines Special Report 47: 83.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 76, 84, 86, 96, 152, 179, 311, 340, 386.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 68, 78, 320.
Johnson, F.L., et al (1985), Mineral Resources of the John Muir Wilderness, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, and Mono Counties, California: U. S. Bureau of Mines unpublished file report. No. 64, Pl. 1.
Rocks & Minerals 82 (2007): 402-407.
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