Tungsten deposits near Dorothy Lake, Yosemite National Park, Tuolomne County, California

Mineral resources of the Emigrant Basin primitive area, California, with a section on geophysical studies

“…Koenig, 1967) and by personnel of the U.S. Geological Survey. Finally, the occurrence and production of tungsten and molybdenum minerals from a few shallow mines and prospects near Bigelow Peak and Dorothy Lake on the southeastern margin of the area are described in an open-file report by Lemmon, Bateman, Stagner, and Beatty (1943).…”

“…According to Lemmon, Bateman, Stagner, and Beatty (1943) the scheelite occurs in garnet-epidote tactite interbedded with quartzite, schist, and hornfels. It crops out at the east edge of one of the satellitic bodies of the Bigelow Peak roof pendant, close to the contact with the granitic batholith.…”