Latitude: 41°31'47"N
Longitude: 120°5'9"W
A Hg occurrence/prospect located 4 miles SW of Cedarville.
Mineralization is being deposited at four groups of hot springs aligned over a distance of about 4,000 feet (1,300 meters). Deposition has produced 2 mm thick crusts of alternating and mixed layers of metacinnabar, cinnabar, heulandite and small amounts of quartz and magnetite.
References
Raab, W.J. and Dickson, F.W. (1969) Deposition of cinnabar and metacinnabar at Cedarville Hot Springs, California. Geological Society of America Abstracts, Cordilleran section, 64th. annual meeting, April 11, 1968: 99.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 117, 377.
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