Just Tungsten Quarries

The Just Tungsten Quarries is a tungsten mine located in San Bernardino county, California.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Just Tungsten Quarries  

State:  California

County:  San Bernardino

Elevation:

Commodity: Tungsten

Lat, Long: 34.74083, -117.54083

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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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