Latitude: 33°34'40"N
Longitude: 114°20'7"W
‡Ref.: Bancroft, H. (1909), Notes on the occurrence of cinnabar in central western Arizona, USGS Bull. 430: 151-153.
Bancroft, H. (1911), Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Arizona, USGS Bull. 451: 84.
von Bernewitz, M.W. (1937), Occurrence and treatment of mercury ore at small mines, US Bureau of Mines Information Circular 6966.
Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 153: 21.
Beckman, R.T. & W.H. Kerns (1965), Mercury in Arizona, in Mercury potential of the United States, U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8252.
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MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027894, MRDS ID #M004374; and, Dep. ID #10092587, MRDS ID #M055230.
A surface Hg-Au-Cu mine/prospect located in sec. 25, T3N, R20W, about 1½ miles W of the Colonial Mining Co, 8 miles SW of Quartzsite, on BLM-administered land. NOTE: Alternate coordinates provided: 33.62944N, 114.36639W.
Mineralization is a vein deposit with a lenticular ore body hosted in mica schist and strikes N55W, with a dip of 15SE.
Property prospected by a few open cuts.
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