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GEOLOGY AND QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS, NEW ALMADEN DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA 



1890 Melville, W. H., Metaclnnabarlte from New Almaden, 

 California : Am. Jour. Set., 3d ser., v. 40, p. 291-295 ; 

 repr., 1891, U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 78, p. 80-83. 



Analysis and goniometer measurements of hexag- 

 onal crystals of metacinnabar from mine. 

 Melville, W. H., and Lindgren, Waldemar, Cinnabar crys- 

 tals from New Almaden, California : U.S. Geol. Sur- 

 vey Bull. 61, p. 11-30. 



Analyses and goniometer measurements of rhom- 

 bohedral crystals. 



1890 Irelan, William, Jr., Quicksilver, in Tenth Annual Report 

 of the State Mineralogist for the year ending Dec. 1, 

 1890: California State Mining Bur., p. 604-606, 920- 

 929. 



First article largely review of literature; second 

 Is reprint of 10th census report by J. B. Randol. 

 Randol, J. B., Report on mineral Industries of the United 

 States; Quicksilver, U.S.: llth Census, p. 177-246. 



Production tables for 1880-89 for New Almaden. 

 Tables of statistics for cost and production of quick- 

 silver In U.S., 1850-90. 



1892 Church, J. A., Private report to the Quicksilver Mining 



Co. 



Recommends exploration below 2100 level In mine. 



1893 Ingalls, W. R., Work was begun at the quicksilver mines 



of New Almaden, California, in 1851: Mining In- 

 dustry, v. 1, p. 227. 

 Historical. 



1894 Crawford, J. J., Quicksilver, in Twelfth Report of the 



State Mineralogist for two years ending Sept. 15, 

 1894 : California State Mining Bur., p. 368-370. 



Condition of mine ; production table. 

 Emmons, S. I'., Geological distribution of the useful metals 

 In the United States ; Quicksilver : Am. Inst. Mining 

 Metall. Engineers Trans., v. 22, p. 84-86. 



Brief description of geology of deposits at New 

 Almaden. 



1895 Anonymous, Santa Clara County and Its resources: San 



Jose Mercury Publishing & Printing Co., p. 90, 230- 

 235. 



Description of mine and mining camp ; good photo- 

 graphs. 



1896 Crawford, J. J., Quicksilver, in Thirteenth Report of the 



State Mineralogist for the two years ending Sept. 15, 

 1896: California State Mining Bur., p. 600-601. 



Activity at the mine for the past few years. 

 1899 Lakes, Arthur, New Almaden mines of Santa Clara 

 County, California: [The Colliery Engineer Co.] 

 Mines and Minerals, v. 19, p. 346-349. 



Illustrations of mine. 



1902 Rearden, Phil, Some occurrences of gases In a quicksilver 



mine: Mining and Scl. Press, v. 84, p. 37. 



Dangerous gases In quicksilver mining. Line dia- 

 grams. 



1903 Bradley, W. W., Quicksilver reduction at New Almaden, 



California : Mining and Scl. Press, v. 87, p. 201. 



Description of reduction works. Illustration of 

 furnaces. 



1908 Forstner, William, The quicksilver resources of Califor- 

 nia: California Mining Bur. Bull. 27, p. 174-186. 



Description of mine ; status of mine In 1903 ; pro- 

 duction tables for 1850-06; illustrations and line 

 drawings. 



Derby, C. C., Private report to the Quicksilver Mining 

 Co. 



Statement of conditions; recommends vigorous 

 prospecting. 



Phillips, W. B., Geology of quicksilver deposits : Mining 

 World, v. 29. p. 131. 



Table showing geological formations and associ- 

 ated rocks and minerals of world quicksilver deposits. 

 1911 Eddy, L. H., Quicksilver In California in 1910: Eng. 

 Mining Jour., v. 91, p. 85. 



Brief mention of New Almaden and lack of pro- 

 duction there. 



1914 Veatch, J. A., The genesis of mercury deposits of the 



Pacific Coast : Am. Inst. Mining Metall. Engineers 

 Bull. 86, p. 209-226. 



Geological history of quicksilver deposits. 



1915 Landers, W. H., New Almaden quicksilver mine: Eng. 



Mining Jour., v. 100, p. 687. 



Short letter pointing out errors made in article on 

 New Almaden mine In same volume p. 465. 

 Place, R. G., New Almaden quicksilver mine : Eng. Mining 

 Jour., v. 100, p. 465. 



Brief popular description of mine and location. 



1916 Landers, W. H., The smelting of mercury ores: Eng. 



Mining Jour., v. 102, p. 634. 



Description of Landers mercury furnace. 

 Landers, W. H., Quicksilver mining in California : Min- 

 ing and Sci. Press, v. 112, p. 282-284. 



Popular account of reduction of quicksilver, with 

 two illustrations of New Almaden. 



1918 Bradley, W. W., Quicksilver resources of California : 

 California Mining Bur. Bull. 78, p. 29, 154, 160-167, 

 231, 250-253, 259-260, 343. 



Brief history, status of mining, and summary of 

 reduction methods used. 



1924 Lyman, C. S., Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands 



and California, 1845-1850: New Haven, Conn., Yale 

 Univ. Press, p. 247-254, 290, 301. 



Diary of C. S. Lyman who surveyed the New Alma- 

 den and Guadalupe mine properties in 1848. Good 

 description of ore reduction and early retorts. He 

 sent ore specimens to Dr. Benjamin Silliman for 

 mineraloglc study. 



1925 Duschak, L. H., and Schuette, C. N., The metallurgy of 



quicksilver: U.S. Bureau Mines Bull. 222, p. 48-56. 



Reduction methods used at New Almaden mines. 

 1930 Brewer, W. H., Up and down California In 1860-1864: 

 New Haven, Conn., Yale Univ. Press, p. 156-160, 371- 

 372. 



Brief description of conditions at New Almaden 

 and Guadalupe mines in 1862. 



Bradley, W. W., Quicksilver, in Twenty-sixth Report of 

 the State Mineralogist for 1930: California Dlv. 

 Mines, p. 29-31. 



New Almaden dumps being reworked ; photographs 

 of concentrating apparatus. 



1935 Schuette, C. N., Private report to William Lord Sexton, 



owner of the New Almaden property. In flies of 

 mine office. 



1936 Shutes, M. H., Abraham Lincoln and New Almaden Mine: 



California Hist. Soc. Quart., v. 15, no. 1, p. 3-20, 

 March. 



Story of Lincoln's order to dispossess owners of 

 New Almaden In compliance with Supreme Court 



