A former Sb mine located 1.9 km (6,400 feet) SSE of Antimony Peak, just S of Lone Tree Road (a dead end), which is about 10 miles NE of Hollister, CA, in San Benito County. NOTE: The Min. Rec. referencee states that this mine is located in San Benito Co.; however, the Yale Peabody/USGS GNIS database places it in nearby San Luis Obispo Co. Mindat user Mr. Thomas Barry, a local resident, confirms that it is located in San Benito County. Started in the mid-1940's and closed before 1956. Owned by R.B. Knox and now a part of the Knox estate. Workings featured 530 meters of drifts and crosscuts.
References
Bailey, Edgar H. (1942), Quicksilver deposits of the Parkfield district, California: USGS Bulletin 936-F: 143-169.
Bailey, E. H. and Myers, W. B. (1949), Quicksilver and Antimony Deposits of the Stayton District, California: California Division Mines Bulletin 147: 37-56.
Engel, H. L. (1949), Dense-Medium and Flotation Tests on an Antimony Ore from California: U. S. Bureau of Mines, Report of Investigation 4616, 6 pp.
Leith, C.J. (1949), Geology of the Quien Sabe Quadrangle, California: California Division of Mines Bulletin 147: 1-35.
Wiebelt, F.J. (1956) Quien Sabe antimony mine, San Benito County, California. U.S. Bureau of Mines Report of Investigation 5192, 29 pp.
Goldman, H.B. (1957) Antimony. California Division Mines and Geology Bulletin 176: 38.
Bahia-Guinmaraes P.F. (1972), The genesis of the antimony-mercury deposits of the Stayton district: Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 222 pp.
Gannon, F. (1983), Antimony – World Wide Recession Cuts Prices, Production, and Consumption: Engineering and Mining Journal, March 1983, pp. 122-123.
Mineralogical Record (1989): 20: 429.
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