Mine detail: Sunny Brook Prospect

Previously called 'Diamond Creek Cinnabar Co.SunnybrookRiamond CreekRockland'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.96982, -123.91644

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar, Mercury
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: DISSEMINATED, FRACTURE COATINGS, VEINS AND FISSURE FILLINGS
Discovery year: 1850

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1917

Geology

Host type:Peridotite
Associated type:Hornblendite
Tectonic:Klamath Mountains

References

MRDSM055507
DEP10040653
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. 170, 198.}{Deposit:: *RIEN, J.C., 1952, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 48, NO. 4, P. 309.}{Deposit:: BRADLEY, W.W., 1918, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 78, P. 41.}{Deposit:: AUBURY, L.E., 1908, THE QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 27, P. 195.}{Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA}
ReporterGassaway, J. S., Peterson, Jocelyn A.