Commodities
PrimaryMercury
TertiaryArsenic, Antimony
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model{177: Hot-spring Hg}
Deposit sizeM
WorkingsUnderground
Orebody formTABULAR
Ore control"Breccia Along Fault Filling Fractures Or Replacing Limestone."
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar, Orpiment, Realgar, Stibnite
GanguePyrite
Geology
Host rockLimestone
Associated rockDacite · Idaho Batholith-Quartz Monzonite;Idaho Batholith-Granodiorite
Alteration"Argillic Alteration, Silicification, Sericitization"
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
First production1918
Discovery year1902
Identification
Deposit ID10106911
MRDS IDM055154
Alternate namesFern Group, Pretty Maid, Hermes, Annie Sell, Golden Gate No. 4, Vermillion Extension No. 1, and Vermillion Claims, Yellow Pine Cinnabar-Mining District, Hermes Claim, Hermes Quicksilver, Cinnabar Group, Bonanza, Hermes MineCinnabar
RegionNA
Data scoreA
Coordinates44.91861, -115.29083
References
{Deposit:: BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., 1964 , MINERAL RESOURCE - MERCURY IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF IDAHO: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, SPEC. REPT. NO. 1 , P. 119 - 123}{Deposit:: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 969-F, P. 151-197.}{Deposit:: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY PAMPHLET 43, P. 26.}{Deposit:: IDAHO BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 2, VOL. XIV, P. 63.}{Deposit:: Bradley, Worthen, 1943, The Hermes Quicksilver Mines--Part I: Mining Congress Journal, v. 29, no. 11, p. 32-34.}{Deposit:: Bradley, Worthen, 1943, The Hermes Quicksilver Mines--Part II, The present operation: Mining Congress Journal, v. 29, no. 12, p. 40-44.}{Deposit:: Schrader, F.C., and Ross, C.P., 1926, antimony and quicksilve rdeposits in the Yellow Pine district, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 780-D, p. 137-164, pl. XVIII.}{Deposit:: Leonard, B.F., Mercury-bearing antimony deposit between Big Creek and Yellow Pine, central Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 525-B, p. B23-B28.}{Deposit:: Larsen, E.S., and Livingston, D.C., 1920, Geology of the Yellow Pine Cinnabar-mining district, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 715-E, p. 73-83.}