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UNITED GEOLOGICAL Bulletin 922-E QUICKSILVER MINING A R. Strategic For sale by the CONTENTS Introduction.......................................... Siliceous Ore ILLUSTRATIONS Page and QUICKSILVER By The In the are from by I/ The that I/ contains p. 116 The E., the the during September in Chalmers and QUICKSILVER o____sa___go___TO___100 Figure district and 118 Between located Co the sinter 6/ 30-ton 3/ UNITED Geology a/too- l,OOO Cinnabar-bearing 40°? Strike Datum GEOLOGIC BUCKSKIN 194O QUICKSILVER The 7/ granitic These the latite s/ gren sequence 7/ Lindgren, 246242 120 3,000- Contour Figure area Buckskin Peak 121 Peak- and tuff 5,000 the mass The and 122 1940 Although the ipy border fragments of -, are but subrounded. cit., pp. 123 Over NE. part The and no formed the this p. 14/ p. 124 The district ORE The 15/ east IS/ QUICKSILVER DBPOSITS been broken as + has from entirely the 126 Mineralogy cinnabar ranges were 20/ were iron oxides has two writer Ledoux one ton; the 19/ op. GEOLOGICAL SUKVEY A. VIEW B. CLIFF The GEOLOGICAL A. CINNABAR-BEARING (a) IN OF H. CIN.NABAH-BEARING . QUICKSILVER By appreciable open 2 also clastic by c' Dense ==^ Dense 10 Strike / __J 8.SIS 4 Zone \3 (?) fT^f _ a c««'r .,, L_r Cinnabar-bearing / ^/ i ^^ ^ ^Interbanded Z Rudely S porous B' ^ones^x^Dense ^'.'-'^^^~ I a^7o x^ J High-grade 4o QUICKSILVER BUCKSKIN 129 cinnabar were seen. and Indicate these zones EXPLANATION Cinnabar my Strike r- OPeNCUT Solid Figure West 130 Shafts. The the 2, QUICKSILVER 8599 sinter thin 19". sinter cinna­ fa" of at to of at bands. £ i N 0 C -8,580- : -8,570- ~_ -8,560- N - -8,550- N " I I a -8,540- Shaft Sparse shaft. 132 The zones 38 throughout and QUICKSILVER If ore be O