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Identifier: bulletin78cali (find matches)
Title: Bulletin
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: California. Division of Mines and Geology California. State Mining Bureau. Bulletin
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources Geology
Publisher: San Francisco (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ice they may from other consumers. Since whichtime, tlie quotations in the open market have ranged between $110 and $115 perflask. ^Forstner, Wm.. Quicksilver resources of California : Cal. State Min. Bur., Bull. 27,pp. 10, et al.. 1903. 16 CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Since Forstiier wrote the above a commercial substitute for cord-wood has been found in crude petroleum. Fuel oil has now been in usefor a number of years at the New Idria mine, San Benito County, andmore recently adopted at New Almaden, Santa Clara Covmty; at theCloverdale and Great Eastern mines, Sonoma County; and for firing a12-pipe retort at the Cuddeback mine, Keru County. Fuel-oil pricesare at the present Avriting practically double what they were threeyears ago. Further details as to fuel and other costs are given else-where herein in the accounts of individual properties. ne 1- IS d •eh la f- tie ts,he>ic he 3tS •allitliees. 5). edasiteied•edirendof•ea;heice!ry )Ut ap.Ian•onostichles3es2as 3), I
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quicksilver resources. 17 Chapter 2. GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE DEPOSITS AXD Theories of Ore Deposition^. Geographical distribution. The quicksilver districts of California, which have thus far provenof commercial interest are mainly in the Coast Ranges, from LakeCounty on the north to Santa Barbara County on the south. Other,scattered occurrences, some of which have yielded commercial quan-tities of the metal, will be noted on the outline map (Plate III), asbeing in Del Norte, Siskiyou, Trinity, Shasta, El Dorado, Kern, andSan Bernardino counties. It will also be noted that the Sonoma-Lake-Colusa-Xapa occurrences form a more concentrated grouping than thoseto the south of San Francisco Bay. The southern string, though more.scattered, includes the largest two single quicksilver producers of NorthAmerica, New Almaden and New Idria. GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS of the MIDDLE COAST RANGES. The geologic formations of the middle Coast Ranges of Californiahave been summarized by Lawson,^ as follows: The

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