The Ship Mountain is a iron mine located in San Bernardino county, California.
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Mine Info
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Ship Mountain MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ship Mountain
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Location
State: California
County: San Bernardino
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: I. F. Crosby, Charles A. Palmer And Earl W. Paul
Production
Year: 1920
Time Period: 1918-1920
Material type: ORE FE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^60 % Fe
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
Form: LENTICULAR
Structure
Type: L
Description: Folds And Faults
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Hematite
Ore: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): DISCONTINOUS LENSES OF BRECCIATED HEMATITE
Comment (Deposit): AMOUNT OF OVERBURDEN, IRREGULAR DISTRIBUTION AND BRECCIATED NATURE OF THE ENCLOSING ROCK ADVERSELY AFFECT MINING. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Reserve-Resource): 42,000 TONS ARE INDICATED AND 38,000 TONS ARE INFERRED
Comment (Location): E 1/2: UTM ACCT.
Comment (Workings): 305 FT. INCLINE WITH SIX LEVELS, 15 PITS AND TRENCHES ORE WAS STOPED FROM THE THREE UPPER LEVELS.
Comment (Geology): BRECCIATED IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS STRIKE NORTH AND DIP 35E, WHILE BASALTS DIP 20E AND OVERLIE THE ORE-BEARING ROCKS.
References
Reference (Reserve-Resource): WRIGHT, L.A., ET. AL., P. 98
Reference (Deposit): MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY-SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1964: SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., VOL. III, P. 130
Reference (Deposit): LAMEY, C.A., 1948; SHIP MOUNTAIN IRON-ORE DEPOSIT, SAN BERNARDINO, CA.; DIV. OF MINES BULL. 129, P. 113-116
Reference (Deposit): WRIGHT, L.A., ET AL, 1953: MINERAL RESOURCES SAN BERNARDINO, CA.; CA. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY VOL. 49, NOS. 1 & 2, P. 98-100
Reference (Production): WRIGHT, L.A., ET. AL, P. 98
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