Scheelore

Past Producer in Mono county in California, United States with commodity Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10188502
MRDS ID D000916
MAS/MILS ID 0060510159
Record type Site
Current site name Scheelore
Alternate or previous names John Muir Wilderness
Related records 10008603

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -118.84785, 37.52634 (WGS84)
Elevation 3353
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mono(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Convict Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(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)

John Muir Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mono

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005 S 028 E 12 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -118.84785, 37.52634

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 2-81, 1981, TABLE 1,

  • Deposit

    P. 13, AND NO. 5, FIG. 1.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, F. L., AND OTHERS, 1985, MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE

  • Deposit

    JOHN MUIR WILDERNESS, FRESNO, INYO, MADERA, AND MONO

  • Deposit

    COUNTIES, CA, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, UNPUBLISHED, MLA

  • Deposit

    FILE REPORT, PLATE 1, MAP NO. 22.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-JUL-1994 Johnson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.