The Aetna is a mercury mine located in Napa county, California at an elevation of 1,401 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 1,401 Feet (427 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.65611, -122.48806
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Aetna MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Aetna
Secondary: Aetna Consolidated
Secondary: Pope Valley
Secondary: Aetna Quick Silver Mines
Secondary: Aetna Quick Silver Mines Consolidated
Secondary: Aetna Quicksilver Mines Consolidated
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: California
County: Napa
District: East Mayacmas
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Basin Montana Tunnel Co.
Years: 1943 -
Production
Year: 1960
Time Period: To 1960
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^6 Lb/Ton
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1854
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: California Coast Ranges
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Nw Trending Mayacmas Anticline
Type: L
Description: Fractures And Lithologic Contacts
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silica Carbonate Alteration Of Serpentine
Rocks
Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATION UNCERTAIN. LOCATED AT CENTER OF SECTION BOUNDARY
Comment (Workings): UNDERGROUND WORKINGS HAVE CAVED
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION DATES 1864, 1868 - 1880, 1884, 1888, 1890 - 1901, 1903 - 1904, 1909 - 1918, 1921 - 1923, 1925 - 1929, 1931 - 1944, 1947
Comment (Geology): BASALT DIKE
Comment (Location): PART OF MINE AREA IS IN SEC. 3.
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD, CENTRAL VALLEY, INACTIVE MINE DRAINAGE IN THE SACROMENTO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, STAFF REPORT, JULY 92, P. 72.
Reference (Production): USBM DATA
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G. W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA: IN USBM IC 8252
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, C.P., 1940, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE MAYACMAS AND SULFUR BANK DISTRICTS, CALIF.: USGS BULL. 922-L, P. 327-353
Pages: p. 346-347.
Reference (Deposit): DAVIS, F.F., 1948, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAPA COUNTY, CALIF.: CJMG, V. 44, no. 2, P. 177, 413-414
Pages: p. 177, 413-414.
Reference (Deposit): BRADLEY, W.W., 1918, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CJMG BULL. 78, 389 P.
Reference (Deposit): RANSOME, A. L. AND KELLOGG, J. L., 1939, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CALIF. JOUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 35, P. 353 - 486
Reference (Deposit): YATES, R. G. AND HILPERT, L. S., 1946, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE EASTERN MAYACMAS DISTRICT, LAKE AND NAPA COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA: CALIF. JOUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 42, no. 3, P. 231 - 286
Pages: p. 255-259.
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