Rockhounding The Tungsten Hills- A TREASURE TROVE OF COOL MINERALS!!! Bishop, CA
Rockhounding The Tungsten Hills- A TREASURE TROVE OF COOL MINERALS!!! Bishop, CA
In this episode of Solomon’s Vegas Adventures, Solomon, Anthony, James, Jose, and Madison rockhounded in the Tungsten Hills- an old mining district west of Bishop, CA, ripe with Abandoned Tungsten Mines that still yield a slough of cool minerals.
The crew went to the Tungsten Blue Mine, and found Scheelite (A Calcium Tungstate Mineral), Andradite Garnet, Calcite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Bornite, Diopside, Wollastonite, Epidote, and more at the site. The Tungsten Blue Mine is located in a Skarn Deposit- and Solomon goes into more detail with that in the video.
The Tungsten Hills are located just west of Bishop, CA, off of US-395 en route to Yosemite from Las Vegas. The site is 4 1/2 hours from Vegas, but it is a great stop on the way to Yosemite.
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WOw! awesome trip…..fantastic information and details, I learned so much. I cant thank you enough for your videos. And……Welcome back!!
Solomon I bought my rock pick. I’m ready to join your rockhounding expeditions next time I’m in LV.
this one time , at field camp ….
Yup! What berry said!
Yup same
Loved this latest video!
Enjoyed the lesson.
You are very astute. It’s nice to watch a rock hound who knows what they are talking about. Very knowledgeable. Thanks for the info 👍😎
Cool video. Nice explanation of the deposit. I’ve been to the Blue Mine several times. Have gotten some huge 3/4-1" garnet clusters from boulders on the tailings piles.
The mine directly across is the Jack Rabbit Mine. Same stuff, but not as pretty as the Blue Mine.
The green crystals you said were diopside, are you sure they aren’t epidote? I have lots of specimens from an outcrop just before the Tungsten Blue Mine and always thought they were epidote. The outcrop produces beautiful, big specimens.
Off to Dish Hill. Wish me luck.
Man, I wish I could still go out rockhounding. Disabled these days. But, nothing gets my heart going like discovering rocks and minerals *sigh*
Nice man. I just started following you a couple wks ago after I found this unusual rock with an amazing weight to it. Its strange to say the least but Would love to have your opinion. Welcome back to vegas…
You do a great presentation. Hope your channel grows!
Good video!
Good to see you back. Great video. Keep up the good work, thumbs up!
Enjoying your hounding vids. got into it form mountaining biking, which, might be a thing you should look into. It’s really the best way to access the locations you keep going with all the walking, and the heat, etc.
Keep it up!