Mine detail: Idria Quicksilver Group

Previously called 'MercuryTurtle Dove'

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Location

Lat / long: 34.85724, -115.05304

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Chalcedony
Orebody form: IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1917

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Hornblendite
Alteration processes:Chalcedonic

References

MRDSM055541
DEP10040683
Reference{Deposit:: HOLMES, G. W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA: IN USBM IC 8252.}{Deposit:: TUCKER, W. B., AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1931, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: CJMG VOL. 27, NO. 3.}{Deposit:: BRADLEY, W. W., 1918, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CDMG BULL. 78.}
ReporterGassaway, J. S.