USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Inyo County
Pine Creek Tungsten Mine & Mill
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground 3 mapped adits
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Inyo
- Mining district
- Bishop
- Development status
- Plant
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Snow Queen, Pine Creek Mine, Black Monster
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
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Adit
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 adit symbols
- Adit : Mount Tom , 1982
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Adit
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Adit). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Plant): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Plant
Operators / organizations
- Pine Creek Tungsten Mining Llc · Historical operator · 1995
- Avocet Ventures Inc. · Source-reported owner · 1995
- U.S. Tungsten Corp. · Source-reported owner · 1995
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Bornite
- Chalcocite
- Chalcopyrite
- Covellite
- Molybdenite
- Powellite
- Scheelite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped adit symbols (3)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
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