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Blue Bell Mine

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103471
MRDS ID M024053
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bell Mine
Related records 10187902

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.46118, 36.22219 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position 1.7 MI SW FROM SUMMIT OF LOOKOUT MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Revenue Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Darwin Hills(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Panamint Valley(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 020S 042E 03 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. LAND UNSURVEYED: LOC. PROJECTED VERY QUESTIONABLE LOCATION.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.46118, 36.22219
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N50W
    Dip 47SW
    Thickness 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Modoc

Comments on the workings information

  • CROSSCUT DRIVEN 90 FT. NORTH TO CONTACT, WITH DRIFT 150 FT. NORTHWEST ON THE VEIN. A SMALL AMOUNT OF STOPING HAS BEEN DONE ABOVE THIS LEVEL. AT ABOUT 200 FT. NORTHWEST OF THESE WORKINGS IS ANOTHER TUNNEL 100 FT. IN LENGTH. THE LOWER TUNNEL ON THE BLUE BELLE VEIN IS ABOUT 300 FT. IN ELEVATION BELOW THESE WORKINGS. THIS TUNNEL IS DRIVEN NORTHWEST 200 FT. ON A NARROW QUARTZ VEIN. NEAR THE FACE OF THIS TUNNEL IS A RAISE 50 FT. IN HEIGHT WHICH CONNECTS WITH ANOTHER TUNNEL. THERE ARE FIVE TUNNELS VARYING IN LENGTH FROM 50 TO 300 FT. A TRAM LINE RUNS FROM THE LOWER TUNNEL TO THE MILL, A DISTANCE OF 500 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORMAN, L.A., JR. AND STEWART, RICHARD M., 1951, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 47, NO. 1, P. 146

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 385

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN, 4-6 FT. THICK
Deposit 2 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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