Old Dependable Mine

From the California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan. 1951:

16 claims, relocated in 1948 as the Old Dependable Group, are owned by Mrs. B.W. Belyea, 201 Hacienda Drive, Arcadia, California.

The ore, stibnite and its alteration products, is in thin lenses and thicker pods as a replacement in limestone overlain by phyllite and shale. The enclosing rocks trend northward and dip 15°-20°E near the workings; their dips change rapidly both north and south of the deposit with evident folding and fracturing.

The workings consist of an open cut and two adits. One 11-ton pod of ore, assaying 60 percent antimony was mined from the open cut. The upper adit, which is in the open cut, was driven S 60° E for a distance of 50 feet. A 20-foot north lateral is 27 feet from the portal. The undulatory mineralized zone dips steeply at the end of the adit. The lower adit, 100 feet S 60° W and 42 feet below the upper adit, runs 70 feet S 65° E, thence 75 feet N 85° E.

Brinn E. Belyea, operator during the period 1939-1941, produced approximately 70 tons of ore, ranging from 18 to 60 percent antimony. Approximately $50,000 was spent during that period in road building, constructing camp facilities, and mining operations, according to R.L. Jordan. J.W.E. McCulley, Darwin, obtained a bond and lease on the property in January 1949. The Trail Canyon road to the property was rebuilt and mining was started in April 1949. He reported that two cars of ore mined from the open cut were not shipped because of poor market conditions existing in June 1949.

The property is idle.