USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · San Diego County
Beebe Hole Mine
Unconfirmed Semiprecious Gemstone Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- San Diego
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Semiprecious Gemstone
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A pegmatite occurrence/mine located 9.1 km (5.7 miles) WSW of Dos Cabezas and 11.8 km (7.3 miles) NNW of Jacumba. Summary: A 12- to 15-ft-thick pegmatite dike strikes north 22 degrees west, and is exposed intermittently for about 1/2 mile in schi…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Beebe, Loren D. · Historical operator · 1984
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Albite
- Apatite
- Aquamarine
- Beryl
- Cassiterite
- Cleavelandite
- Columbite-(Fe)-Columbite-(Mn) Series
- Fluorapatite
View all 25 reported minerals
- Albite
- Apatite
- Aquamarine
- Beryl
- Cassiterite
- Cleavelandite
- Columbite-(Fe)-Columbite-(Mn) Series
- Fluorapatite
- Goshenite
- Herderite
- Hydroxylherderite
- Kunzite
- Lithiophilite
- Mica Group
- Microcline
- Montmorillonite
- Morganite
- Muscovite
- Purpurite
- Quartz
- Schorl
- Spessartine
- Spodumene
- Tantalite
- Tourmaline
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 55920
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (25)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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