MalachiteCopper World Mine, Clark Mountain, Clark Mountain Sub-District, Clark Mts, Ivanpah District, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
Photo: WWB Latitude: 35°30'18"N
Longitude: 115°36'9"W
A former Cu-Pb-Ag-Au mine located in sec. 6, T16N, R13E, SBM, straddling the SW spur of Clark Mountain at about 1650 m. elevation and about 4 km. (air travel) N of Interstate 15, between Valley Wells Station and Mountain Pass. Since 1994, it has been included in the Mojave National Preserve, managed by the National Park Service. Additional names for this locality: Dewey Ivanpah Mine; Dewey Mine.
Mineralization is a vein deposit hosted in the Bully Hill Rhyolite and dolomite.
References
Schaller, Waldemar Theodore (1935), Monticellite from San Bernardino County, California, and the monticellite series: American Mineralogist: 20: 815, 816.
Tucker, W. Burling & Reid J. Sampson (1943b), Mineral resources of San Bernardino County: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 39): 39(4): 432-433.
Wright, L.A., et al (1953), Mines and mineral resources of San Bernardino County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 49(1-2): 63.
Hewett, Donnel Foster (1956) Geology and mineral resources of the Ivanpah quadrangle, California and Nevada, USGS Professional Paper 275, 172 pp.: 70-72, 118.
Goodwin, Joseph Grant (1957) Lead and zinc in California. California Journal of Mines and Geology, Division of Mines: 53(3&4): 625.
Sahama, T.G. and Hytoenen, K. (1958) Calcium-bearing magnesium-iron olivines. American Mineralogist: 43: 867.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 167, 272, 346.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 146, 226, 394, 461, 478, 479.
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