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Big Boy Cinnabar Group

Past Producer in Del Norte county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040652
MRDS ID M055506
Record type Site
Current site name Big Boy Cinnabar Group
Related records 10138768

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.89699, 41.99426 (WGS84)
Elevation 655
Relative position 15 MI SOUTHWEST OF O'BRIEN, OREGON, 10 MI WEST OF MONUMENTAL - ON STATE LINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Del Norte(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

High Plateau Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Happy Camp(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smith(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Six Rivers National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Del Norte

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Humboldt 019N 002E 36 California

Comments on the location information

  • ON NORTH FORK OF DIAMOND CREEK. TWO CLAIMS ARE IN OREGON, THREE ARE IN CALIFORNIA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Kaolinite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Propylitization

Analytical data

Result 3-5 LB/TON HG

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 179
USGS model code 27c
Deposit model name Silica-carbonate Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.89699, 41.99426
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FRACTURE FILLING

Comments on the geologic information

  • SERPENTINE IS PRESENT NEARBY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919
Discoverer John Griffen
Production years PRIOR TO 1933

Mining district

District name Diamond Creek District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner O. H. Hayberg, H. W. Lipple, And George Davis
    First year 1952

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW OPEN CUTS AND PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G.W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE UNITED STATES: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES INFORMATION CIRCULAR 8252, P. 169, 198.

  • Deposit

    O'BRIEN, J.C., 1952, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 48, NO. 4, P. 309.

  • Deposit

    MAXSON, J.H., 1933, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF PORTIONS OF DEL NORTE AND SISKIYOU COUNTIES, NORTHWESTERNMOST CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 29, P. 157-158.

  • Production

    HOLMES

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OVERALL, DEPOSIT FORMS A TABULAR BODY
Deposit Discovery Year: POST WWI

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, J. S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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