Question: Which mine in California, lasting from 1873 to 1883, became one of the most noted mercury producers in the world?
Context: Helvetia, located in Brady Township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States, was a company mining town that was purchased by the R&P in 1896.  The Helvetia Mine quickly became one of the largest producers in the region, dominating the Reynoldsville coalfield for many years.  The company town lasted from 1891–1947.  Schools, churches, stores were built for the families of the miners and to this day a small population still live in Helvetia.  It had three periods of ownership; Adrian Iselin built the town and started commercial operations at the mine around 1890–1891; during the second period of ownership, from 1896 to 1947, management and operations at Helvetia were under the direct control of the R&P; in 1947, the R&P sold all of its company towns, including Helvetia, to the Kovalchick Salvage Company.  The mine was permanently closed in 1954. The New Almaden quicksilver mine in the Capitancillas range in Santa Clara County, California, United States, is the oldest and most productive quicksilver (i.e., mercury) mine in the U.S.  The site was known to the indigenous Ohlone for its cinnabar long before a Mexican settler became aware of the ores in 1820.  By the time they were identified as mercury, the mine was perfectly timed to supply the California Gold Rush.  The mine ran intermittently after 1927 and eventually closed.  It was purchased by the county and is now part of Almaden Quicksilver County Park. The Great Western Quicksilver Mine was a mercury mine 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. The Aktashskoye mine is one of the largest mercury mines in Russia and in the world.  The mine is located in Siberia.  The mine has estimated reserves of 1.38 million tonnes of ore grading 0.4% mercury. The Franklin-Creighton Mine was a Georgia Gold Rush gold mine located off what is now Yellow Creek Road in the town of Ball Ground in Cherokee County, Georgia.  The mine, located along the Etowah River, was initially known as the Franklin Mine because it was started by a widow, Mrs. Mary G. Franklin, who obtained a 40 acre lot in the Gold Lottery of 1832.  Around 1883, the mine became known as the Creighton Mine or the Franklin-Creighton Mine.  This mine was one of the most productive and continued to operate many years after other area mines had ceased operations.  Some estimate that it was yielding $1000 per day in 1893 and others place its total production after 1880 at as much as $1,000,000.  The mine was shut down in 1913 as a result of a collapsed shaft which caused the mine to flood. Lower Lake Stone Jail, in Lower Lake, California, is a one-room jail claimed to be the smallest jail in the United States, was erected in 1876 of stone locally quarried and reinforced with iron.  During the days of the first quicksilver operations of the Sulphur Bank Mine, lasting from 1873 to 1883, rapid town growth and the urgent need for civil order necessitated the building of a jail.  Stephen Nicolai, one of the first stonemasons in Lower Lake, built the jail from local materials with the help of Theodore and John Copsey. Reuben Atwater Chapman (Sept. 20, 1801 Russel, Mass.–June 28, 1873 Fluelen, Switzerland) was an American attorney who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1868 until his death in 1873.  As a youth he was employed as a store clerk in Blandford, Massachusetts when he was given the opportunity at the age of 19 to read law as a clerk in a law office.  Admitted to the bar, he successively practiced in Westfield, Monson, and Ware, before settling in Springfield, Mass., where he practiced in partnership with Whig politician George Ashmun as Chapman & Ashmun.  The firm became one of the most successful in the state and in 1860 Chapman was appointed an associate justice of the state supreme court, subsequently being elevated to chief justice in 1868.  He was a presidential elector for Lincoln in 1860, and served on the Harvard Board of Overseers.  He handled some legal matters for John Brown when Brown was in business in Springfield, and later, when Brown was imprisoned in Virginia facing hanging after the abortive Harper's Ferry raid, he wrote to Chapman asking him to either come himself or send legal assistance: "I have money in hand here to the amount of $250 [...] do not send an ultra abolitionist," which Chapman was unable to do at the time.  Chapman died in Switzerland in 1873. The Terligkhaiskoye mine is one of the largest mercury mines in Russia and in the world.  The mine is located in Siberia.  The mine has estimated reserves of 0.83 million tonnes of ore grading 0.2% mercury. The Itomuka mine is one of the largest mercury mines in Japan and in the world.  The mine is located in Hokkaido.  The mine has estimated reserves of 0.95 million tonnes of ore grading 0.35% mercury. The Sulphur Bank Mine is located near Clearlake Oaks and Clear Lake in Lake County, California.  The 150 acre mine became one of the most noted mercury producers in the world.
Answer: Sulphur Bank Mine