Cherry Hill

The Cherry Hill is a mercury, gold, and silver mine located in Colusa county, California.

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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

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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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