Mine detail: Aetna Extension

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Location: Napa County, California, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.66599, -122.51051
dep_id: 10040783
mrds_id: M055654
Commodity type: metallic
Trace mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Cinnabar
work_type: Surface/Underground
conc_proc: Hydrothermal Solutions
Reporter: Peterson, Jocelyn A.
hrock_type: Sandstone
arock_type: Basalt
Structure: Contact With Basalt Dike Local Fractures
disc_yr: 1895
References:
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, G. W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA: IN USBM IC 8252
  • Deposit:: BRADLEY, W.W., 1918, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CJMG BULL. 78, 389 P.
  • Deposit:: DAVIS, F.F., 1948, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAPA COUNTY, CALIF.: CJMG, V. 44, P. 413-414
  • Deposit:: YATES, R.G., 1946, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE EASTERN MAYACMAS DISTRICT, LAKE AND NAPA COUNTIES, CALIF.: CJMG, V. 42, P. 231-286
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