Old Dependable Antimony Mine (Old Dependable Mine; Transportation-Old Dependable; Transportation Mines Inc. property), Wildrose Peak, Wildrose Mining District (Wild Rose Mining District), Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USAi
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36° 16' 60'' North , 117° 2' 60'' West
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A former Sb mine located in the SW½ sec. 13, T19S, R45E, MDM, 2.7 km (1.7 miles) ENE of Wildrose Peak (coordinates of record), at the end of South Fork Trail Canyon, W side of the Panamint Range, on National Park Service wilderness land (Death Valley National Park/Death Valley Wilderness). MRDS database stated accuracy for this location is 5,000 meters.
From 1939 to 1941 the Old Dependable was operated by Brinn W. Belyea, who invested approximately $50,000 in construction of a road, camp facilities, and mine development. The site yielded around seventy tons of ore showing eighteen to sixty percent antimony. In 1940 an H. E. Olund was in charge of the mine for Belyea Truck Company, and eighteen men were employed in building a modern camp. Operations were discontinued when the war came and Belyea donated the use of his time and the facilities of his trucking, crane, and construction companies to the war effort. Mr. Belyea died in the latter part of 1946; in 1948 sixteen claims were relocated as the Old Dependable Group by his wife, Isabelle Belyea, and were bonded and leased to J. W. E. McCulley of Darwin in January 1949. Drags, picks, and shovels were used in an attempt to rebuild and repair the access road, permitting mining to commence from an open cut in April. However, due to the smallness of the ore body, its remote location, and unfavorable market, conditions during peacetime, the two cars of ore removed from the cut were never shipped, and the property became idle. In 1951 the workings consisted of the open cut, which had produced one eleven-ton pod assaying 60% antimony, and two adits.Greene, 1981
Mineralization is hosted in limestone and shale. Local rocks include Precambrian rocks, undivided, unit 1 (Death Valley).
Workings include unspecified surface and underground openings.
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1 valid mineral.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Stibnite Formula: Sb2S3 Description: Occurs as lenses and pods in limestone. References: |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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| ⓘ | Stibnite | 2.DB.05 | Sb2S3 |
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| Link to USGS MRDS: | 10072412 |
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- Sierra NevadaMountain Range
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References
(n.d.) Minerals Availability System (MAS), U.S. Bureau of Mines.file ID #0060270083
