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Cinnabar from
Butterfly Mine, Hayward, West Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cinnabar
Formula:HgS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cinnabar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Butterfly Mine, Hayward, West Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:328622
Long-form Identifier:1:3:328622:7
GUID (UUID V4):367b4248-63a5-49b0-a814-35f7afeeaa6d
Nearest other occurrences of Cinnabar
12.7km (7.9 miles) Horseshoe Bend Hg occurrence, Horseshoe Bend Mountain, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) Willow Creek Mercury deposit, Horseshoe Bend Mountain, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
14.4km (9.0 miles) Cabinet Mine, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
14.7km (9.1 miles) Crystal Mine (Penobscott Mine), Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
15.5km (9.6 miles) Unnamed S-Hg occurrence [1], Horseshoe Bend Mountain, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) Oro Y Plata Mine (Oro-Plata Extension Mine; Red Wing Willard Mine; Pay Rock Mine; Silver Star Mine; Blue Wing Mine), Murphys, Murphys Mining District (Esmeralda Mining District; Sperry Mining District), East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
92.3km (57.4 miles) International Mine, Rooster Comb, Orestimba Mining District, Stanislaus County, California, USA
92.5km (57.5 miles) Orestimba Mine (Palo Alto Mine), Rooster Comb, Orestimba Mining District, Stanislaus County, California, USA
94.3km (58.6 miles) Winegar prospect (Summit & Winegar properties; Orestimba group of Phoenix Mines; Red Acres; Orestimba), Black Mountain, Black Wonder Mining District, Stanislaus County, California, USA
94.6km (58.8 miles) Adobe Valley Mine (Stanislaus Mine), Black Mountain, Black Wonder Mining District, Stanislaus County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
locality); Japan; Norway; South Africa; Sweden; England; USA: Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri...microscopic crystals. Most of them come from the Mariposa mine which was the original town site for Terlingua...miles eastward to be near the Chisos mine after the Marfa Mariposa mining company shut down in 1910 (Ragsdale...today but there is even less remaining at the Mariposa mine except an open pit and some underground workings...opened the Perry pit at the Mariposa mine site. It is the Mariposa mine that has the rare oxy-chloride
Journal (issue)
MEXICO ................................ 302 BATOPILAS MINE FAMOUS FOR SILVER SFECIMENS........................ 302 UNUSUAL CALCITE CRYST ALS OF THE OLD MARIPOSA MINE. By Frank D :111c:1.11 ....•.••••••••.•••••••••••...quartz veins and clay seams in a large hematite mine. The mine is worked open-cut and many of the miners save...in colorless crystals, also occur in the mine. Batopilas Mine Famous For Silver Specimens One of the world's...specimens of native silver is the Batopilas silver mine of northwestern Mexico. Museums and all important
Journal (issue)
‘Continued on p. 247 Articles The Outlaw mine, Nye County, Nevada ....................................Way Sunnyvale, California 94087 Gary E. Moss 118 Springfield Drive San Francisco California 94132 Joseph...482 Green Valley Road Watsonville, California 95076 The Outlaw mine has long been known as an occurrence...benjaminite, fo r which it is the type locality. The mine has been idle fo r more than 60 years, and because...because o f its remoteness near the bottom o f Mariposa Canyon, few collectors have visited the site. More
Journal (issue)
.................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens ................................................... 59 CHINESE CINNABAR Guanghua Liu ...................................minrec.org Front Cover CINNABAR crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...Chinese minerals on the market were a few old cinnabar specimens, most of them bruised from handling
Report (issue)
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS »v ' " ; ^,- • ^... -'--' . CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU...UNIVERSiiY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS To his Excellency George Stoneman, Governor of California: Sir: I have...fifth annual report of the State Mineralogist of California, in compliance with section three of an Act of...June 15, 1885. REPORT. The Act creating the California State Mining- Bureau, approvides for an annual...approved April 16, 1880. The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES KENNETH I. FULTON, Director DIVISION OF MINES ... 38 State Mineralogist January, 1942 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA LIBRARY University of California DAViS 1 DIVISION OF MINES...Mineral Resources GEOLOGIC BRANCH of Sierra County 7 68 Current Notes 68 SPECIAL ARTICLES 69...O \ «"""""'/ ItRIHITyS SHASTA, LASSEN. - CALIFORNIA •LEGENDMining Division Boundaries. Mining Division
Report (issue)
IgtmmtSlTY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University...University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details/reportofstatemin15cali CALIFORNIA STATE...PORTIONS OF CALIFORNIA Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report Biennial Period 1915-1916 CALIFORNIA STATE...OFFICE SACRAMENTO 19 19 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Cr CALIFORNIA Da v I S CONTENTS. Page Administrative...Administrative Statement xxiii Participation of the California State Mining Bureau in the Panama-Pacific International
Journal (issue)
of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Journal (volume)
ssv/y STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF... State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1937 No. 1 CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA UAfi^tWRAI DIVISION OF MINES EXECUTIVE AND...Special Articles Prospecting for Lode Gold of California, January, 1937 9 38 51 55 57 Administrative...in the change of title from Mining in California to California Journal of Mines and Geology, beginning
Journal (issue)
$2.00 ManhattanMineralCollecting John Betts 215 West 98 Street, #2F New York, NY 10025 jhbnyc@aol.com...Arhbar Mine in view of the association with the wendwilsonlte which was confined to this mine and is...very old cinnabar collection in West Virginia. It forms an olivegreen earthy crust on cinnabar. An old...only as Sonoma County, California. However in view of it's association with cinnabar, it is presumed...the Morococala tin mine, two hours drive east of the city of Oruro, Bolivia. This mine became famous in
Report (issue)
DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and Geology Sacramento, California, 1970...By William B. DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology...Geology, Sacramento, California UNIVERSITY LIBRARY U.C DAVIS '~'^ JUL 'I 'i GOV INFO or"! BULLETIN 193...to the gold deposits in California. Although on treatise a vast California, there in of the knov/n...considerable importance are reports on the Mother Lode belt by Knopf and Logan, and reports on the Grass Valley
Journal (issue)
natural. By Lori Carter 34 PROJECT: “LOVEBUG” BUTTERFLY PENDANT Sterling silver and heat-colored copper...natrolite. From the Dallas Gem mine in San Benito County, California. (Jeff Scovil photo/Brett Keller... These Blue “Diamonds” Are the State Gem of California Story and Photos by Bob Jones I magine that...deposits had already been found in several places in California just before John Marshall picked up his nugget...and the deposit was exploited as the Dallas Gem mine. The blue crystals Couch had gathered ended up in
Book
English language. JOHN SINKANKAS San Diego, California June, 1970 • Introduction Go to any river...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...were supplied by the mineral kingdom: minium, cinnabar, and limonite (ochre). The black color was soot...springs, such as at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, where cinnabar, chalcedony, and even gold are continually formed...be altered in the same Pi..ATE 7 Stibnite and cinnabar L!ft Stibnite. Both crystals are longitudinally
Journal (issue)
B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt ore dump, Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS:...TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan material was used in the initial X-ray...Schuetteite is found as a thin yellow crust on cinnabar ore that has been exposed at or near the surface...H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...(Laubanite?) Type Locality: near Manhattan, Nye County This species was never recognized by anyone except
Catalog/List
xtls, 1. AHAZO!IITE/MORION. Pikes Peak,Colorado,USA. Typical Feldspar/Quartz pcgmatitic matrix fragment...APATITEVARFRANCOLITE,Simms ~ode,Geevor Hine,Trevellard,West Cornvall, Choice,very rich specimen. Ferruginous...B-60x60x20mm. L2.50. 19. ATACAHITE.Wheal Cock,Carnyorth,West Cornvall. Tvo spcclmens. !lornfels matrix fragments...114,75, 21. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,Carnyorth,West Cornva11. Lustrous,clovc brovn single xtl 10mmon...15.25. 22. AXINITE, Roscommon Cliffs,carnyorth,West Cornwall. Specimen A-lustrous, vaxy brovn,matrix
Book
>*»> BRITL 622. 09794. C128 c. 1 CALIFORNIA MINERS # CALIFORNIA MINES AND MINERALS 3 T153 DODEETEO...(:()Mi>A.\v \.\i:isi'll California Mines and Minerals PUBLISHED BY THE California Miners' Association under...Edward H. Benjamin, ot Secretary for the California Meeting of the American Institute of Mining...SOUVENIE OF THEIR VISIT TO Tins ,\IIXI>ff; CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER AND OCTOHEK 1809. K 6k 2 Kntered...spirited enough to look citizens after their county interests, prepared from the Secretary's all
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
this maPeter Young, Box 601, Kentfield, terial, butterfly calcite on a rare shade of Calif., has visited...recent letter he writes: "Bastnaand old mine tunnel located west of Tucson. There were also calcite and...much of the barite with cal- tain Pass, Calif. The mine is about 3 miles cite and galena." David P. Record...Mart, 4400 Mission Road, road leads to the mine. The mine consists of one shaft. Some bastnasite has...can be found, although most of cite crystals (butterfly-shaped) and tiny the original find has been taken
Journal (issue)
Variscite-Gus and Jane Eifler coLlection, page 82; Cinnabar-Rob Thacker collection, page 263; Adamite-Stretch...1889 he embarked on a 10-week collecting trip out West which took him through Texas, where he visited the...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the... Legends suggest that early Indians mined the cinnabar there to make red paint, and the Spanish may have
Book
Green’s Farm, otherwise known as the Roxbury Garnet Mine, which is on the border between Roxbury and Southbury...and is typical of what could still be found in the mine. To me, its label “makes” this specimen. I am very...my favorite specimens from the Northeast and head west and then on to Mexico, South America, and on to...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated to my...Group, Inc., 650 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, CT 06877 USA, www.maplegatemedia.com Library of Congress Control
Catalog/List
pins, anatomical charts, laboratory glassware, butterfly nets, or frogs, but the diversity of our product...••••••••.•••••••.•• $28.80 Isurus species (Mio.) California ,Complete tooth, ave. 3-4 cm. 53 W 4981 ••..•••••••••••••...80C08 ANDALUSITE, Pink Lady Claim, Berne, Custer County, South Dakota Andalusite is a mineral usually missing...cm matrix••• $60.00 80Cl3 ARAGONITE, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona ~eresting sea green radially fibrous...x 6 cm••• $7.50 Quite 80Cl5 AUGELITE, San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia ~ellent colorless to blue-gray pseudorhombohedral
Journal (issue)
DENVER, COLORADO JUNE 19-22,1975 BENITOITE; CALIFORNIA ineralo ccor editor & publisher Volume Six/Number...material. feature articles Quenstedtite from California......................................106 by Dwight...Keith The Minerals of the Zinc Hill Mine, Inyo County, California.......................................Beryl. The Hiddenite and Emerald mine, near Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina. Found in 1971...collection. Photography by Van Pelt, I Los Angeles, California. Editorial TRAPPED It is disturbing to fall
Book (edition)
England. Native copper wires occur at Tsumeb, South West “Africa. 14 x 2 15 ELEMENTS NAME: Silver...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...masses are found in the Mother Lode country of California, as in El Dorado, Calaveras, Kern and Tuolumne...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped crystals are
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director...1949 Number CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY LIBRARY iWIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Davis 1 STATE... STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Wakren T Hannum, Director...Ferry Building, San Francisco 11 District Offices West First Street, Los Angeles 12 631 J Street, Sacramento...minerals, rocks, mine models, etc.; a service laboratory for the determination of California minerals; and
England. Native copper wires occur at Tsumeb, South West 'Africa. occurrences: 14 10 X Copper 15 ELEMENTS...Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good...masses are found in the Mother Lode country of California, as in El Dorado, Cala¬ veras, Kern and Tuolumne...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...New Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill
Journal (issue)
1—Three Step Die-Cast Motor 1—32” V-Belt PRICE COMPLETE, LAPIDARY 1265 WEST 76TH Pulley STREET Bottle...Labrador, is unsurpassed for opalescence, showing Butterfly Blue, Reddish Gold and Yellow. “WHAT THEY THINK...PASADENA | } = AVAILABLE ANNIVERSARY | | 4, CALIFORNIA THE o =_ << << = SUPER EARTH SCIENCE DIGEST...Mineral Convention”, July 16-17-18, Long Beach, California ie Ae we Gorpbon’s GEM & MINERAL SUPPLIES...Red Paint Splashes on White or Cream background (Cinnabar in Opa r in Chert): best areen or areen with hard
 
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