The quicksilver resources of California (1903) (14597002089)

Identifier: quicksilverresou00forsrich (find matches)
Title: The quicksilver resources of California
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Forstner, William California State Mining Bureau
Subjects: Mercury mines and mining Mines and mineral resources Mercury ores
Publisher: Sacramento, Calif. : W.W. Shannon, supt. of State printing
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network



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SONOMA COUNTY. 101 slope of the ridge by three open cuts, forming a nearly continu-ous line of workings (see photograph Fig. 35, Ki, K., and K3J;the open cut at the top of the ridge (Ki) is 60 feet high and48 feet wide, and furnishes at present, practically without sort-ing, all the ore run during the summer season through thefurnace, which has a capacity of 7 tons of ore per day andproduces from 45 to 50 flasks per month. The more compactand regularly bedded part of the ledge carries the metal mostlyas face metal and incrustations in the fissures; the crushedportions are much richer and carry the metal more in seamsand bunches. /i//3 S <k tt £/ » f