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Photo identification provided by Chris T. Higgins, California Division of Mines and Geology. Photograph shows view northwestward across canyon showing surface facilities of Wide Awake Mine, Sulphur Creek Mining District, Colusa County. This mine produced mercury from rock that contained the mineral cinnabar. The large, gently inclined slope above the mine may be a large landslide. On the far right, the vertical structure may be an exhaust stack connected to the furnace-condenser complex in the canyon bottom below (see sc21058). The white house beyond the mine dump is that of the mine superintendent the fence around the residence is still visible today.
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