A former Hg mine located in sec. 32, T17S, R12E, MDM, 0.3 km (900 feet) SSE of Idria. Discovered in 1853 and in continuous production since, except the period 1921-1922.
Mineralization is a Hg deposit in hydrothermally indurated beds of the Panoche Formation beneath the New Idria thrust fault and associated tear faults which offset the thrust.
References
Becker, George F. (1888), Geology of the quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope: USGS Monograph 13, atlas: 302, 306.
Dana, E.S. (1892) System of Mineralogy, 6th. Edition, New York: 1095.
Rogers, Austin Flint (1912b), Notes on rare minerals from California: Columbia University, School of Mines Quarterly: 33: 376.
Bradley, W.W. (1918), Quicksilver resources of California, with a section on metallurgy and ore dressing: California Mining Bureau. Bulletin 78, 389 pp.: 97.
Laizure, Clyde McK (1926), Marin, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma Counties: California Mining Bureau. Report 22: 242-244.
Bradley, W.W. (1937), Thirty-third report of the State Mineralogist: California Division Mines Report 33: 251.
Rogers, Austin Flint (1938a), Diadochite, a mineraloid from the New Idria mine, San Benito County, California […(abstract): American Mineralogist: 22(12), part 2: 13; …vol. 23: 178 (1938)]: 178.
Eckel, Edwin Butt & W.B. Myers (1946), Quicksilver deposits of the New Idria district, San Benito and Fresno Counties, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 42): 42: 109-115.
California Journal of Mines and Geology (1947): 43: 55-58.
Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 1013.
Learned, R.E. (1962) Paragenesis of mercury-ore deposits. Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of California, Los Angeles: 2, 43.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 119, 146-147, 168, 178, 233, 236, 258, 260, 262, 382.
Linn, R.K. (1968) New Idria mining district. In: Ore Deposits of the United States, 1933-1967. The Graton-Sales volume, New York, A.I.M.E.: 1623-1649.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 65, 120, 125, 130, 266, 272, 277, 278, 312, 313.
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