The Cherry Hill is a mercury, gold, and silver mine located in Colusa county, California.
About the MRDS Data:
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:
Commodity: Mercury, Gold, Silver
Lat, Long: 39.04167, -122.43333
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Cherry Hill MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cherry Hill
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Arsenic
Secondary: Antimony
Secondary: Thallium
Location
State: California
County: Colusa
District: Sulphur Creek
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Homestake Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Hot Spring
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: California Coast Ranges
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Au-Ag
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Thrust Faults (Underthrust From Drag Caused By A Subducting Oceanic Plate In The Late Cretaceous)
Type: L
Description: Many Folds And Faults: Wilbur Springs Antiform, Stony Creek Fault, Coast Range Thrust (Trending N10-15w To The North, N40w To The South), Abbott-Coyote Peak Fault Zone: Beds Generally Have A Northwest Dip And Trend.
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: "Adularized" Mudstone: Sericite, Adularia, Silica, Iron Sulfides (Pyrrhotite), Bitumen, Chlorite, Anhedral Dolomite Argillization: Smectite-Illite Clays, Purite/Marcasite, Cinnabar, Sericiite, Adularia
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): ORE CONCENTRATION AU: 17PPM AG: 5.5PPM HG: 6000PPM AS: 230PPM
Comment (Location): ALSO MAY BE CALLED THE CHERRY HILL OR THE WILBUR SPRINGS DISTRICT
Comment (Production): CUMMULATIVE FIGURE FOR AU METAL INCLUDES MANZANITA MERCURY MINE CUMMULATIVE FIGURE FOR HG METAL INCLUDES THE ABBOTT MINE.
Comment (Geology): HOST ROCKS CONTAINS VOLCANIC DETRITUS. WIDE AWAKE AND CENTRAL MINES ARE HOSTED IN SEDIMENTARY SERPENTINE.
Comment (Deposit): SULPHUR CREEK DISTRICT INCLUDES WEST END, CENTRAL, CHERRY HILL, EMPIRE, AND WIDE AWAKE MINES
Comment (Geology): QUATERNARY AND TERTIARY GOLD BEARING GRAVELS; RESULT OF THE EROSION OF THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, WHERE THE OLDER GRAVELS ARE PARTLY CEMENTED AND LOCALLY DEFORMED, AND THE YOUNGER GRAVELS OCCUR ALONG THE STREAMS AND ARE UNDISTURBED.
Comment (Workings): THE LA GRANGE MINE NEAR WEAVERVILLE WAS THE LARGEST HYDRAULIC MINE IN THE AREA.
Comment (Location): INCLUDES MOST OF THE DRAINAGE OF THE TRINITY RIVER: EXTENDS FROM COFFEE CREEK SOUTHWARD THROUGH TRINITY CENTER, DEDRICK, HELENA, JUNCTION CITY, WEAVERVILLE, LEWISTON, AND DOUGLAS CITY, AND WEST TO THE HAY FORK AREA.
References
Reference (Deposit): NELSON, G.C., RYTUBA, J.J., MCLAUGHLIN, R.J., AND TOSDAL, R.M., 1993, GOLD AND MERCURY DEPOSITS IN THE SULPHUR CREEK DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA, IN RYTUBA, J.J., ED., ACTIVE GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS AND GOLD-MERCURY DEPOSITS IN THE SONOMA-CLEAR LAKE VOLCANIC FIELDS, CALIFORNIA: SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, GUIDEBOOK SERIES, V. 16, P. 262 269.
Reference (Production): NELSON, 1993
Reference (Deposit): PEARCY, ENGLISH C., AND PETERSEN, ULRICH, 1989, MINERALOGY , GEOCHEMISTRY, AND ALTERATION OF THE CHERRY HILL, CALIFORNIA HOT-SPRING GOLD DEPOSIT: JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, 36, 1990, P. 143-169
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