The Aeroplane is a tungsten mine located in Inyo county, California.
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Mine Info
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Aeroplane MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Aeroplane
Secondary: Mesa
Secondary: Moonlight
Secondary: Standard Tungsten City Milling Co.
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: California
County: Inyo
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Unknown
Ownership
Not available
Production
Year: 1944
Time Period: - 1944
Year: 1918
Time Period: - 1918
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Workings): GLORY HOLE REACHED FROM 2 ADITS 50 AND 195 FT. BELOW OUTCROP. RAISES AND A STOPE WEST OF THE GLORY HOLE. ADIT 270 FT. LONG IN NORTH ORE BODY.
Comment (Deposit): LOW GRADE ORE. 3 ORE BODIES. DEVELOPED UNDERGROUND
Comment (Commodity): LOW GRADE
Comment (Location): NW 1/4, UTM ACC
Comment (Production): FROM 51,000 TONS ORE
Comment (Deposit): THREE ORE BODIES, ONE BED IS 13 FT. THICK, 25 FT. WEST OF GLORY HOLE IS ANOTHER BED 10 FT. THICK AND 100 FT. LONG, NORTH ORE BODY IS 4 FT. WIDE.
Comment (Geology): CALCAREOUSQUARTZITES,DOLOMITICLIMESTONES MARBLE, CALC-SILICATES AND HORNFELS; CALCAREOUS METAMORPHIC ROCK IN CONTACT WITH DIORITE AND GRANITE.
References
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M.; TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN THE US; VOL I; UNPUBLISHED DATA, P. 248-250.
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962; TUNGSTEN IN THE US; USGS MAP, MR-25.
Reference (Production): LEMMON, D.M.
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