A mining area located in sec. 13, T14N, R6W, and in secs. 28 & 29, T14N, R5W, MDM, around the headwaters of Sulphur Creek near the border of Colusa and Lake Counties, 25 miles SW of Williams.
Mineralization is mainly cinnabar in silica-carbonate rock formed from sedimentary serpentine lenses in rock of the Great Valley sequence (Knoxville).
References
Becker, George F. (1888b), Geology of the quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope: USGS Monograph 13, atlas: 367.
Bailey, Edgar H. (1959), Froth veins, formed by immiscible hydrothermal fluids, in mercury deposits, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin 70: 661-664.
White, D.E. (1967) Mercury and base-metal deposits with associated thermal and mineral waters. In: H.L. Barnes (Editor), Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits. Holt Reinhart and Winston, New York: 580, 584-588.
Moiseyev, A.N. (1968) The Wilbur Springs quicksilver district (California), example of a study of hydrothermal processes by combining field geology and theoretical geochemistry. Economic Geology: 63: 169-173.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 545.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 113, 127, 378.
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