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Phelps Hilton Creek Mine

Past Producer in Mono county in California, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101392
MRDS ID D000917
Record type Site
Current site name Phelps Hilton Creek Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.76762, 37.51661 (WGS84)
Elevation 3033
Relative position 2,500 FT. SOUTH OF NICOIL HILTON CREEK MINE

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 004S 029E 10 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. LITERATURE PLACES THIS MINE IN TOWNSHIP 3S, QUADRANGLE PLACES THIS MINE IN 4S.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.76762, 37.51661
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 20 W
    Dip WEST
    Length 41.15M
    Width 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Body Localized In Large Re-Entrant In The Qtz. Monzonite Contact, Similar In Some Respects To Ore Body At Nicolc Mine But Showing Concordant Rather Than Discordant Relationships.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner G. B. Hartley
    First year 1955
  • Type Owner
    Owner R. W. Phelps
    Home office Bishop, Ca.

Comments on the production information

  • FROM 553 TONS ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RINEHART, C. D. AND ROSS, D. C., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MT. MORRISON QUAD., SIERRA NEVADA, CA; PROF. PAPER 385, P. 93-94.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO TACTITE BODIES, CONCORDANT IN STRIKE, BUT DIP IS WESTWARD AWAY FROM CONTACT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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