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California

Los Angeles County

Cogswell : (34.14.45N by 117.58.05W - #3) (Molybdenum & Rhenium)

Coordinates are for a suspected ore body.  

From Unpublished USGS Data by Robert U. King, 1974 : The Mine is located in Section 19, R.010W, T. 002N. of Los Angeles County. It contains molybdenite, rhenium and powellite; with rhenium concentrations are up to 1,000 PPM. It is a pegmatite deposit in a quartz monzonite porphyry. The MoS 2 from the deposit is coarse and flaky.