The Great Western Quicksilver Mine was a mercury mine[2] in California, near Middletown in Lake County. The mining company was incorporated in 1872 and the mine produced from 1873 until 1909, when it was exhausted.
| Location | |
|---|---|
  Great Western Mine Location in California | |
| Location | Middletown |
| State | California |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 38°42′54″N 122°38′30″W / 38.71500°N 122.64167°W[1] |
| Production | |
| Products | Mercury |
| History | |
| Opened | 1873 |
| Closed | 1909 |
In 1880, Andrew Rocca was the superintendent of the Great Western Mine. His daughter, Helen Rocca Goss, wrote that the Great Western Quicksilver Mine employed 25 white miners and about 200 Chinese, a number consistent with numbers at Sulphur Bank Mine, located adjacent to Clear Lake.[3][4][5]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Great Western Mine (Lake County, California)
- ^ Great Western Mine (Laguna Western; Black Bart Mine; Tucker lease), Mindat.org, retrieved 8 October 2017
- ^ Goss, Helen Rocca (1957), "The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine: Part I—The Mine and its Setting", The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 39 (2), University of California Press: 167–189, doi:10.2307/41166254, JSTOR 41166254
- ^ Goss, Helen Rocca (1957), "The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine: Part II-Camp and Home Life", The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 39 (3), University of California Press: 251–280, doi:10.2307/41169134, JSTOR 41169134
- ^ Goss, Helen Rocca (1957), "The Life and Death of a Quicksilver Mine: Part III-Good Times and Bad (Conclusion)", The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, 39 (4), University of California Press: 357–370, doi:10.2307/41169298, JSTOR 41169298
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