The Just Tungsten Quarries is a tungsten mine located in San Bernardino county, California.
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Just Tungsten Quarries MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Just Tungsten Quarries
Secondary: Just Associates
Secondary: Princess Pat
Secondary: Shadow Mtn. Mines
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: California
County: San Bernardino
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Production): FEW HUNDRED TONS OF ORE YIELDED DURING FIRST-HALF OF 1952 - UNDISCLOSED GRADE
Comment (Deposit): SCHEELITE OCCURS IN QTZ. VEIN CUTTING GARNET-EPIDOTE-QTZ. TACTITEBODIES WHICH EXIST AT CONTACT BETWEEN METAMORPHIC ROCKS AND GRANITE (?).
Comment (Workings): 1800 FT. OF ZIG-ZAG TRENCHES, 10 FT. WIDE AND 6 - 10 FT. DEP. ONE 65 FT. SHAFT WITH NO UNDERGROUND MINING.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: COLIATED ROCKS STRIKE SLIGHTLY NORTH OF EAST AND DIP GENTLY SOUTH.
Comment (Deposit): COMPRISED OF 440 ACRES - 1953 ORE WAS BEING MINED FROM A BENCH CUTTING INTO A TRENCHED AREA ABOUT 50 FT. NORTH OF SHAFT.
References
Reference (Deposit): PARTRIDGE, J. F., 1941, TUNGSTEN RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CA. JOURN. MINES AND GEOLOGY VOL. 37, NO. 2, P. 316 - 317.
Reference (Deposit): WRIGHT, L. A. AND OTHERS, 1953, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA.; CA. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 49, NOS. 1 & 2, P. 149.
Reference (Production): WRIGHT, L. A.
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