Latitude: 38°46'2"N
Longitude: 122°45'51"W
A former Hg mine located in sec. 32, T11N, R8W, MDM, 4.1 km (2.5 miles) W of Castle Rock Springs.
Mineralization is a deposit hosted in serpentinite along a sandstone-serpentine contact.
Production data are found in: Holmes (1965).
References
Aubury, Lewis E. (1903), The quicksilver resources of California: California Mining Bureau Bulletin 27: 106.
Bradley, W.W. (1918), Quicksilver resources of California, with a section on metallurgy and ore dressing: California Mining Bureau. Bulletin 78, 389 pp.
Ransome, Alfred Leslie & J.L. Kellogg (1939), Quicksilver resources of California: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 35): 35: 353-486.
Bailey, Edgar H. (1946), Quicksilver deposits of the western Mayacmas district, Sonoma County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines Report 42: 199-230.
Honke, Martin T., Jr. & Wm. E. Ver Planck, Jr. (1950), Mines and mineral resources of Sonoma County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 46(1): 98-105.
Holmes, Jr., G.W. (1965), Mercury in California: in: U.S. Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8252.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 263.
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