USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · Colusa County
Cherry Hill Deposit
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- Colusa
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Manzanita, Empire, In Between, West End, Central, Cerise, Buckeye, Gold Mountain, Montezuma, Wide Awake
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
A former Au-Hg, Ag, Sb, Th, As deposit and mine group located about 1.3 km (4,200 feet) W of Wilbur Springs. MRDS database accuracy for this location is not stated. The area of the mining district just west of Wilbur Springs contains several mercury…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 1 shaft symbol
- 9 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- None · Historical operator
- Homestake Mining Company · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Adularia
- Chalcedony
- Dolomite
- Magnesite
- Marcasite
- Opal
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
View all 20 reported minerals
- Adularia
- Chalcedony
- Dolomite
- Magnesite
- Marcasite
- Opal
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Electrum
- Miargyrite
- Pyrargyrite
- Adularia
- K Feldspar
- Muscovite
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Sericite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (1)
- mapped adit symbols (9)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 73314
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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