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Cinnabar from
Los Prietos Mine (Los Pristoe Mine; Horseshore Quicksilver Mine Company; Snow Workings; Juniper Claims), Los Prietos District, Santa Barbara County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cinnabar
Formula:HgS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cinnabar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Los Prietos Mine (Los Pristoe Mine; Horseshore Quicksilver Mine Company; Snow Workings; Juniper Claims), Los Prietos District, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:332876
Long-form Identifier:1:3:332876:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Cinnabar
3.1km (1.9 miles) ⓘGibraltar Mine (Falcon Mine), Los Prietos District, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) ⓘRed Rock Mine (Acachuma Mine; Eagle Mine), Cachuma Village, Cachuma Mining District, San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
28.8km (17.9 miles) ⓘSulphur Dome claim (Sulfur Dome claim), Cachuma Village, Cachuma Mining District, San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
29.3km (18.2 miles) ⓘLost Chord claim (Last Chord claim), Cachuma Village, Cachuma Mining District, San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) ⓘLion Den Mine, Cachuma Mining District, San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
37.8km (23.5 miles) ⓘDavis prospect, Cachuma Mining District, San Rafael Mountains, Santa Barbara County, California, USA
83.4km (51.8 miles) ⓘDeer Trail Mine, Huasna, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
References
Bradley, W.W. (1918), Quicksilver resources of California, with a section on metallurgy and ore dressing: California Mining Bureau. Bulletin 78: 150-153
Everhart, Donald Lough (1950b), Quicksilver deposits of the Cachuma district, Santa Barbara County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 46: 509-532
Egenhoff, Elizabeth Lee (1953) De Argento Vito: Historic documents on quicksilver and its recovery in California prior to 1860. California Journal of Mines and Geology, 49, special supplement: 81
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983) Minerals of California. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc.
 
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