Mine detail: Pine Creek

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

37.36161, -118.70428

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum, Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Bismuth
Ore:	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Gold, Molybdenite, Powellite, Scheelite
Gangue:	Diopside, Epidote, Feldspar, Garnet, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1916

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1918

Geology

Host rock:	Pine Creek Pendant;Pine Creek Pendant;Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite.;Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite.;Tungsten Hills Quartz Monzonite
Host type:	Marble
Structure:	Sierra Nevada Batholith
Tectonic:	Sierra Nevada
Alteration processes:	Metamorphism To Skarn, Ore In Fractures, And Some Replacement By Ore.

References

MRDS	D001058
DEP	10008713
Reference	{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.}{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.}{Deposit:: BURWELL, BLAIR, 1941, MILLING TUNGSTEN ORE AT PINE CREEK: MINING CONG. JOUR., VOL. 27, NO. 10, P. 16-18.}{Deposit:: BATEMAN, P.C., 1945, PINE CREEK AND ADAMSON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS, INYO COUNTY, CALIF.: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., VOL. 41, NO. 4, P. 231-249.}{Deposit:: 1959, OCCURRENCE OF NONPEGMATITE BERYLLIUM IN THE UNITED STATES, USGS PROFESSIONAL PAPER 318, PP. 91-92.}{Deposit:: WRIGHT, W. A., 1978, MINERALOGICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL ZONATION IN THE NORTH ORE BODY, PINE CREEK MINE, BISHOP DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA, GEOLOGICAL SOC. OF AMERICA ABSTR. WITH PROGR AMS, V. 10, N. 3, P. 155.}{Deposit:: 1952 GEOLMAP BATEMAN, MAPS, REPORT}
Reporter	Mosier, Dan, Elliott, James E., Zigler, Jan L.