Location and Mines: Gold has been recovered from the Tehachapi Mountains a few miles south of the town of that name in south-central Kern County. Most of it came from the Pine Tree mine, which was’ active from 1876 to 1907 and had a reported total production of $250,000.

Geology: The gold occurs in faulted and sheared quartz veins in granitic rocks. Scheelite also occurs locally in the quartz veins.

Bibliography

• Clark, W. B., 1992,California Div. Mines Bull. 193, Sixth Edition, p. 125.
• Troxel, B. W., and Morton, P. K., 1962, Kern County, Tehachapi district: California Div. Mines and Geology County Rept. 1, p. 52.