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Kelso Mine

Past Producer in Kern county in California, United States with commodities Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103007
MRDS ID M020898
Record type Site
Current site name Kelso Mine
Alternate or previous names Condor, Cully and Hoyes, Tejon Ranch
Related records 10212417

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.75731, 34.83278 (WGS84)
Relative position 7 MILES EAST OF LEBEC, SE SIDE OF TEHACHAPI MTS., HEADWATERS OF ALAMOS CR.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kern(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lebec(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lancaster(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Los Angeles(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Antelope-Fremont Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Kern

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 009N 018W 23 California

Comments on the location information

  • SE 1/4 SEC. 23 , UTM EST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Silver Secondary

Analytical data

Result 30 - 33 % ZN FROM TWO CLOSELY SPACED FRACTURES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.75731, 34.83278
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 30 E
    Dip STEEP NW
    Width 1.83M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: LIMESTONE IS PRE-CRETACEOUS IN AGE, PALE BLUISH WHITE, WHERE NOT STAINED BY IRON OXIDES, AND MEDIUM TO COARSE GRAINED. IT CONTAINS INTRUSIVE BODIES OF MESOZOIC BIOTITE GRANITE. THE LIMESTONE BODY CROPS OUT OVER AN AREA OF SEVERAL SQUARE MILES WEST AND SOUTH OF KELSO MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • 1943 : SEVERAL TENS OF TONS OF ORE PRODUCED CONTAINING 17.5 % ZN, 1.97 OZ. AG AND A FEW LBS. OF PB AND CU.

Comments on the workings information

  • LOWER, MIDDLE AND UPPER ADIT LOWER ADIT; THE NORTHEASTERN-MOST, 60 FT. LONG S 30 W. MIDDLE ADIT; A CROSSCUT 40 FT. TO THE SOUTH AT POINT 150 FT. SW AND 60 FT. HIGHER THAN LOWER ADIT. UPPER ADIT: 125 FT. ABOVE AND 250 FT. SW. OF MIDDLE ADIT, ITS 600 FT. LONG S 48 S., IN 1942 IT WAS CAVED AT 200 FT. FROM PORTAL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TROXEL, B.W. AND MORTON, P.K., 1962 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CA; COUNTY REPT. 1 ; CA. DIV. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, P. 346 - 347

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ZINC MINERALIZATION APPEARS TO HAVE PENETRATED THE LIMESTONE ALONG FRACTURES. THE TWO PRINCIPAL FRACTURES ARE 4 FT. APART AND A THIRD FRACTURE IS ABOUT 30 FT. FARTHER NE OF THEM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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