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Carbonate Mine, Oro Grande, Oro Grande District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA

Latitude: 34°36'31"N
Longitude: 117°19'8"W
A former Pb-Ag-Au-Cu mine located in the N½NE¼ sec. 17, T6N, R4W, SBM, 1½ miles (2.5 km) NE of Oro Grande.

Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in limestone.

Local structures include a fault.

Production data are found in: Goodwin, J.G. (1957): 622.

References

Storms, William H. (1893), Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego Counties: California Mining Bureau. Report 11: 361-363.

Bowen, O.E., Jr. (1954), Geology and mineral deposits of Barstow quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California: California Division Mines Bulletin 165: 129-130.

Goodwin, Joseph Grant (1957) Lead and zinc in California. California Journal of Mines and Geology, Division of Mines: 53(3&4): 622.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 104, 231, 233.

Mineral List

Cerussite
Galena


2 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.

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