Cave Canyon Mine (Cave Canyon Iron Ore deposits; Cave Canyon Iron deposit; Baxter; Basin), Cave Canyon, Yermo, Cave Canyon District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
Latitude: 35°3'9"N
Longitude: 116°18'25"W
An Fe-Cu occurrence/mine located in secs. 11 & 12, T11N, R7E, SBM, NE of Yermo; also, ½ mile N of the Union Pacific Railroad and 20 miles SW of Baker.
Mineralization is a replacement deposit hosted in marble, quartzite and gneiss.
Local structures include anticlinally folded rocks.
Reserve-Resource data are found in: S.P. Land Co. (1964).
References
Crossman, J.H. (1890), San Bernardino County: California Mining Bureau. Report 9: 235.
Cloudman, H.C., F.J.H. Merrill & E. Huguenin (1919), San Bernardino County: California Mining Bureau. Report 15: 774-899; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 27: 394]: 818.
Lamey, Carl Arthur (1948), Cave Canyon iron-ore deposits, San Bernardino County, California: California Division Mines Bulletin 129: 71-83.
Wright, L.A., et al (1953), Mines and mineral resources of San Bernardino County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 49(1-2): 93.
Lamey, Carl Arthur (1961), Contact metasomatic iron deposits of California: Geological Society of America Bulletin: 72: 673.
Southern Pacific Company (1964b) Minerals for Industry, Vol III - Southern California, 242 pp.: 132.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 216, 246, 251.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 151, 237.
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