Mine detail: Red Hawk Mine

Previously called 'Modoc Cinnabar Group'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.90236, -120.30356

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Hematite, Nontronite, Quartz
Orebody form: FISSURE AND CROSS FRACTURE FILLING
Discovery year: 1917

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite
Structure:Warner Mountains, Fractures
Tectonic:Basin And Range
Alteration processes:Silicification

References

MRDSM055480
DEP10040630
Reference{Deposit:: BAILEY, E.H., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: HOLMES, G.W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE UNITED STATES: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8252, P. 172-173, 199.}{Deposit:: BRADLEY, W.W., 1918, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 78, P. 29-30.}{Deposit:: ROSS, C.P., 194, SOME QUICKSILVER PROSPECTS IN ADJACENT PARTS OF NEVADA, CALIFORNIA, AND OREGON: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 931-B, P. 72.}
ReporterGassaway, J. S., Peterson, Jocelyn A.