Mine detail: Ord Mountain Copper Mine

Previously called 'Ord Mountain Copper GroupOsborn Group'

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Location

Lat / long: 34.70281, -116.83007

Resource(B)

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Molybdenum, Silver, Gold
Tertiary: Iron, Barium-Barite, Feldspar, Fluorine-Fluorite
Other material: Azurite, Bornite, Calcite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chlorite, Epidote, Gold, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Quartz, Scheelite, Sericite, Tetrahedrite
Discovery year: 1870

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1908

Geology

References

MRDSM020766
MAS60711398
DEP10286634
Reference{Deposit:: AUBURY, L. E., 1908, THE COPPER RESOURCES OF CAL., CAL STATE}{Deposit:: MINING BUR. BULL. 50, P.336.}{Deposit:: BOWEN, O.E., 1954, GEOL. AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF BARSTOW}{Deposit:: QUADRANGLE, SAN BERNARDINO CO. CAL., CAL DIV MINES BULL 165,}{Deposit:: P.208}{Deposit:: CLOUDMAN, H. C., HAUGUENIN, E., & MERRILL, F. J. H., 1919,}{Deposit:: SAN BERNARDINO CO IN MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES OF PORTIONS}{Deposit:: OF CAL., CAL. STATE MIN. BUR. BULL. REPT. 15, P. 789, 808-}{Deposit:: 810.}{Deposit:: CRAWFORD, J. J. 1894, GOLD-SAN BERNARDINO CO, IN MINING AND}{Deposit:: MINE PRODUCTS OF CAL, CAL STATE MIN BUR. REPT 12, P. 234,}{Deposit:: AND REPT 13, P. 326.}{Deposit:: CROSSMAN, J. H., 1889, CAL. STATE MIN BUREAU REPT. 9, P.}{Deposit:: 223, 226}{Deposit:: DEGROOT, H., 1890, MINES AND MINING IN SAN BERN.CO.CAL., CAL}{Deposit:: STATE MIN BUR RERT. 10, P. 528-529}{Deposit:: GARDENER, D. L, 1940, GEOL. OF NEWBERRY & ORD MTNS,SAN BERN.}{Deposit:: CO., CAL. JOUR. MINES & GEOL., VOL. 36, P. 257-292}{Deposit:: HEWETT, D. F., 1954, MOJAVE DESERT REGION IN GEOL OF S. CAL,}{Deposit:: CAL DIV. MINES BULL. 170, CHAPT. 11, P. 5-20 AND CHAPT. IV,}{Deposit:: P. 5-18}{Deposit:: LARSEN, E.S., 1954,THE BATHOLITH OF S. CAL.IN GEOL OF S.CAL,}{Deposit:: CAL DIV MINES REPT. 26, P. 217-218}{Deposit:: TUCKER, W. B, AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1931, CAL DIV. MINES REPT.}{Deposit:: 27, P. 265- 275. AND 1940, ECONOMIC MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE}{Deposit:: NEWBERRY AND ORD MTNS., CAL DIV MINES REPT. 36, P. 232-254}{Deposit:: AND 1943, MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN BERN. CO.,CAL JOUR MINES}{Deposit:: AND GEOL. VOL 39, P.435-436.}{Deposit:: WEBER, F. H., 1963, GEOL AND MIN. DEPOSITS OF THE ORD MNT.}{Deposit:: DISTICT SAN BERN. CO. CAL. DIV. MINES & GEOL. SPECIAL REPT.}{Deposit:: 77,}{Deposit:: WRIGHT, L. A., STEWART, R. M., GAY, T. E., AND HAZENBUSH,G C}{Deposit:: 1953, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SAN BERN. CO., CAL. JOUR}{Deposit:: MINES & GEOL. VOL. 49, P. 66-67.}
ReporterWetzel, Nicholas