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Pine Creek

Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Bismuth
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Reserves and resources
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008713
MRDS ID D001058
Record type Site
Current site name Pine Creek
Alternate or previous names Pine Creek Tungsten Mine
Included sites Black Monster, Snow Queen
Related records 10188014, 10236233

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.70428, 37.36161 (WGS84)
Elevation 2820
Relative position 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF BISHOP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Tom(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bishop(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 030E 31 NE California

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION ESTIMATED IN CADASTRAL COORDINATES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Molybdenum Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Covellite Ore
Gold Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Metamorphism To Skarn, Ore In Fractures, And Some Replacement By Ore.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Pine Creek Pendant; Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite
    Rock description Pine Creek Pendant;Pine Creek Pendant;Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite.;Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite.;Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.70428, 37.36161
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sierra Nevada Batholith

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N - S
    Dip STEEPLY EAST
    Thickness 30.48M
    Length 762M
    Width 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Marble Beds In Pine Creek Pendant With Quartz Monzonite

Comments on the geologic information

  • PINE CREEK PENDANT MARBLE DENSITY IN SITU 3.2, DEFORMED IN JURASSIC. GEOL.COM: PINE CREEK PENDANT MARBLE DENSITY IN SITU 3.2, DEFORMED IN JURASSIC. SKARN (TACTITE).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1916
Discoverer Sproule And Vaughan
Year of first production 1918

Mining district

District name Bishop Tungsten District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Union Carbide Nuclear Corp.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1941
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Tungsten Wo3 0.5 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1941

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 1) LEMMON, 1941. 2-4) USBM MAS.

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED FROM 8000 TO 11500 FT. ELEVATION, MILL IS AT 7800 FT. . FOUR ADITS AT ELEVATIONS OF 10,750 FT., 11,052 FT. AND 11,371 FT., AND A LARGE OPEN CUT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DESCRIPTION ABOVE IS FOR NORTH ORE BODY. SOUTH OREBODY: 400 FT LONG, 400 FT WIDE, AND 60 FT THICK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-74 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-81 Zigler, Jan L. U.S. Geological Survey HOST ROCK CHECKED. CLEANED UP UNIT NAME. AGE OF MINERALIZATION CHANGED FROM JUR TO CRET. ASSOCIATED ROCK TYPE
Editor 04-OCT-91 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey AND AGE CHECKED.
Editor 09-JUN-95 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Reporter 01-NOV-75 \nMiller, M. H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 29-NOV-10 Causey, J. Douglas U.S. Geological Survey Added data from 2 old MAS records where mine and mill were combined and coded as plant and one duplicate MRDS record. MRDS MAS records are Dep_ID 10236233 and 10188014
Reporter 24-SEP-96 Wetzel, Nicholas U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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