| Lat / long: | 37.36161, -118.70428 |
| 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 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Yes |
| Development status: | Producer |
| First production started: | 1918 |
| 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. |
| 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| Reference | {Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.}{Deposit:: LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.}{Deposit:: BURWELL, BLAIR, 1941, MILLING TUNGSTEN ORE AT PINE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. |