Huntley Industrial Minerals, Inc.

Producer in Inyo 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035156
MRDS ID M022328
Record type Site
Current site name Huntley Industrial Minerals, Inc.
Alternate or previous names Tungsten City Milling Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.51372, 37.34022 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tungsten Hills(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

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 007S 031E 13 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Garnet Gangue

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1937-1939, 1944-1945

Mining district

District name Deep Creek Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • CONCENTRATE PRODUCED AVG. 72% WO3; 1944-1945 200,000 TONS OF TAILINGS WERE REWORKED AVG. 56% GARNET AND .4% WO3

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORMAN, L.A. AND STEWART, R.M., 1951; MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES INYO COUNTY; CA. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 47, NO. 1; DIV. OF MINES, P. 88-89, 197

  • Production

    NORMAN AND STEWART

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HUNTLEY INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, INC. IS PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR REWORKING THE TAILINGS FOR GARNET CONTENT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

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